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Definition: Importing |
ImportingNoun1. The commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "importing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: ImportingSynonym: importation (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Importing |
| English words defined with "importing": importer ♦ Non obstante, Nonimportation, Nonimporting ♦ Prisage ♦ smuggling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "importing": Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Antidumping Duties ♦ compensatory duty, countervailing excise duty, criminal investigator, customs ♦ distributed two-thirds majority vote ♦ Export Draft, Export Restraints ♦ Import Restrictions ♦ Landing Certificate ♦ Plant quarantine ♦ Regionalization ♦ SPECIAL AGENT, CUSTOMS, State trading enterprises, Supply Access ♦ unfair competition ♦ Voluntary export restraint arrangement, Voluntary Restraint Agreements. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | China still must rely on importing fertilizers in large quantities. (references) | |
Two payment methods exist in importing fine and specialty chemicals. (references) | ||
This will improve prospects for importing fine and specialty chemicals. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Burma | Since the 1960's, Christian and Islamic groups have had difficulties importing religious literature into the country. (references) |
Georgia | On a number of occasions, Jehovah's Witnesses encountered difficulty importing religious literature into the country. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | The religion law forbids or severely restricts activities such as proselytizing and importing and disseminating religious literature. (references) | |
Economic History | Mexico | Most importing is conducted on open account. (references) |
Brazil | This is partly due to a high importing costs. (references) | |
Lithuania | Several of the new private businesses concentrate on importing. (references) | |
Political Economy | GREECE | Greece is an import-dependent country, importing substantially more than it exports. (references) |
COSTA RICA | Some enforcement actions have been taken in 2001 against companies importing or producing counterfeit jeans. (references) | |
Moldova | The region is often used for various forms of fiscal evasion, for businesses importing and exporting goods to the NIS region. (references) | |
Trade | Argentina | Certain food additives and colorants are prohibited from importing. (references) |
Georgia | However, import/export licenses are required for importing certain goods. (references) | |
Argentina | They are subject to an additional 2 percent tax when importing the equipment. (references) | |
Travel | Russia | However, the Embassy recommends that people declare the entire amount of cash they are importing no matter how small. (references) |
Worker Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | Media reports continue to expose the widespread practice of importing and indenturing Malian boys for field work on Ivoirian farms and plantations under abusive conditions. (references) |
Qatar | The Government also penalizes citizen employers who severely violate residence and sponsorship laws by prohibiting them from importing labor until they rectify the situation. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Turmoil within the region adjacent to the Persian Gulf poses risks for the security and prosperity of every oil importing nation and thus for the entire global economy. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Importing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 90.43% of the time. "Importing" is used about 209 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 90.43% | 189 | 22,353 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.26% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.83% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.48% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 209 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "importing": importing country. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "importing": bulb-importing, capital-importing, cargo-importing, cereal-importing, energy-importing, grain-importing, grey-importing, mainly-importing, oil-importing, tile-importing, wine-importing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
importing | 288 |
importing car | 35 |
importing exporting | 19 |
canada car importing | 11 |
importing nissan skyline | 10 |
importing business | 10 |
importing from china | 10 |
importing car from japan | 8 |
importing vehicle | 8 |
goods importing | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "importing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 进口 (import, importation, imported). (various references) | |
Danish | indfoerselsstat (importing country), indfoerselssaeson (importing season), indfoerselsland (importing country), indførselsmedlemsstat (importing Member State), importmedlem (importing member), importland (importing country), importkapacitet (import capacity, importing power), udgifter til transport af importvarer fra eksportlandets grænse til importlandets grænse (expenses incurred in transporting imported goods between the frontiers of the exporting and importing countries), subsidier er de loebende overfoersler,som det offentlige eller De europaeiske Faellesskabers institutioner i henhold til deres oekonomiske og sociale politik betaler til hjemmehoerende enheder,som producerer varer og markedsmaessige tjenester med henblik (subsidies are current transfers which general government or the Institutions of the European Communities make as a matter of economic or social policy to resident units producing or importing goods and market services with the objective of influencing the), salgsrettigheder gives til flere salgsorganisationer i indfoerselslandene (to grant the right of sale to several sales organizations of the importing countries), faktiske priser paa de vigtigste importerende tredjelandsmarkeder (prices ruling on markets of the main importing third countries), distributionsomkostninger i importlandet (trade and transport margins within the importing country). (various references) | |
Dutch | invoerstaat (importing country), invoerland (importing country), invoerend lid (importing member), invoercampagne (importing season), importonderneming (importing house), vervoerkosten van ingevoerde goederen tussen de grens van het uitvoerende land en de grens van het invoerende land (expenses incurred in transporting imported goods between the frontiers of the exporting and importing countries), Staat van invoer (importing country), prijzen op de markten van de voornaamste invoerende derde landen (prices ruling on markets of the main importing third countries), Lid-Staat waar de invoer plaatsvindt (importing Member State), Lid-Staat van invoer (importing Member State), land van invoer (importing country), exploitatie-en invoersubsidies zijn inkomensoverdrachten door de overheid of door de Europese gemeenschapsinstellingen in het kader van hun economisch en sociaal beleid uitgekeerd aan ingezeten eenheden die goederen en verhandelbare diensten voortbrengen (subsidies are current transfers which general government or the Institutions of the European Communities make as a matter of economic or social policy to resident units producing or importing goods and market services with the objective of influencing the), distributiekosten in het land van invoer (trade and transport margins within the importing country), de verkooprechten verlenen aan een aantal verkooporganisaties van de importerende landen (to grant the right of sale to several sales organizations of the importing countries). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuojamaa (importing country). (various references) | |
French | importateur (importer). (various references) | |
German | einfuhr (import, importation, influx). (various references) | |
Greek | κόστος μεταφοράς στη χώρα εισαγωγής (trade and transport margins within the importing country), κράτος μέλος εισαγωγής (importing Member State), κράτος εισαγωγής (importing country), μέλος εισαγωγής (importing member), εισαγωγική ισχύς (import capacity, importing power), εισαγωγική περίοδος (importing season), τιμές που εφαρμόζονται στις αγορές των κυριότερων τρίτων εισαγωγικών χωρών (prices ruling on markets of the main importing third countries), οι επιδοτήσεις είναι τρέχουσες μεταβιβάσεις που πραγματοποιούν το δημόσιο ή τα θεσμικά όργανα των Eυρωπαϊκών Kοινοτήτων ως μέτρο οικονομι (subsidies are current transfers which general government or the Institutions of the European Communities make as a matter of economic or social policy to resident units producing or importing goods and market services with the objective of influencing the), δαπάνες που προκύπτουν κατά τη μεταφορά των εισαγόμενων αγαθών ανάμεσα στα σύνορα των χωρών εισαγωγής και εξαγωγής (expenses incurred in transporting imported goods between the frontiers of the exporting and importing countries). (various references) | |
Italian | importazione (import, importation). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 輸入業者 (import merchant, importer, importing firm). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゆにゅうぎょうしゃ (import merchant, importer, importing firm). (various references) | |
Korean | 수입 (importation). (various references) | |
Manx | ymmyrkey stiagh (import). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | importingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | preços praticados nos mercados dos principais países terceiros importadores (prices ruling on markets of the main importing third countries), país importador (importing country, importless), membro importador (importing member), Estado-membro de importação (importing Member State), Estado de importaçao (importing country), custos de transporte entre a fronteira do país exportador e a fronteira do país importador (expenses incurred in transporting imported goods between the frontiers of the exporting and importing countries), custos de distribuição no interior do país de exportação (trade and transport margins within the importing country), campanha de importaçao (importing season), banco de importação e exportação (importing country). (various references) | |
Russian | импортировать импорт. (various references) | |
Spanish | país importador (importing country). (various references) | |
Swedish | importerande (importation). (various references) | |
Ukranian | що імпорту". (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "importing": reimporting. (additional references) | |
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"Importing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imposting, impring, midportion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "importing" (pronounced i'mpô"rting) |
| 7 | -m p ô" r t i ng | homeporting. |
| 6 | -p ô" r t i ng | deporting, exporting, nonsporting, porting, purporting, reporting, sporting, supporting, transporting, underreporting. |
| 5 | -ô" r t i ng | aborting, cavorting, consorting, courting, distorting, exhorting, extorting, resorting, shorting, snorting, sorting, thwarting. |
| 4 | -r t i ng | carting, charting, darting, departing, escorting, imparting, marting, parting, restarting, smarting, starting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, depicting, depleting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, extenuating, exterminating, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, respecting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smelting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, speculating, spitting, splitting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-m-n-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: tromping. | |
-2 letters: ignitor, imprint, mitring, porting, priming, rioting, romping. | |
-3 letters: imping, import, miring, moping, opting, origin, pirogi, poring, riming, riping, roping, timing, tiring, toping, trigon, tropin. | |
-4 letters: gipon, giron, griot, gript, groin, imino, ingot, intro, iring, minor, nitro, oping, orpin, piing, pingo, pinot, pinto, pirog, piton, point, primi, primo, print, prion, prong, tigon, torii, trigo, tromp. | |
-5 letters: gimp, girn, giro, girt, gorp, grim, grin, grip, grit, grot, impi, inro, inti, into, iron, mini, mint, miri, morn, mort, noir, nori, norm, omit, ping, pint, pion, pirn, pong, porn, port, prig, prim, prog, prom, ring, riot, romp, roti, ting, tipi, tiro, tong, topi, tori, torn, trig, trim, trio, trip, trop. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-m-n-o-p-r-t" | |
+2 letters: importuning, reimporting, temporising, temporizing. | |
+3 letters: impregnation, misreporting, outpromising, premigration, primogenitor, trampolining. | |
+4 letters: approximating, computerising, computerizing, extemporising, extemporizing, impersonating, impregnations, predominating, premoistening, prenominating, primogenitors, primogeniture, temporalizing, trampolinings. | |
+5 letters: contemporizing, intercomparing, primogenitures. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 70 6F 72 74 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .--. --- .-. - .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01110000 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m p o r t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 0070 006F 0072 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437982818486758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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