export

export
♦♦
exports, exporting, exported
(The verb is pronounced [[t]ɪkspɔ͟ː(r)t[/t]]. The noun is pronounced [[t]e̱kspɔː(r)t[/t]].)
1) VERB To export products or raw materials means to sell them to another country.

[V n] The nation also exports beef...

[be V-ed to n] They expect the antibiotic products to be exported to Southeast Asia and Africa...

To earn foreign exchange we must export. [Also V n to n]

Ant:
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl
Export is also a noun.

...the production and export of cheap casual wear... A lot of our land is used to grow crops for export. ...illegal arms exports.

2) N-COUNT Exports are goods which are sold to another country and sent there.

He did this to promote American exports...

Ghana's main export is cocoa.

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3) VERB To export something means to introduce it into another country or make it happen there.

[V n] It has exported inflation at times.

[V n to n] ...hecklers who said the deal would export jobs to Mexico.

Ant:
4) VERB In computing, if you export files or information from one type of software into another type, you change their format so that they can be used in the new software.

[be V-ed] Files can be exported in ASCII or PCX formats. [Also V n]

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English dictionary. 2008.

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Synonyms:
(merchandise from one country to another), , ,


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