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Definition: Importer |
ImporterNoun1. Someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "importer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Business | A person purchasing goods or services from other countries. Source: European Union. (references) |
Economics | The individual, firm or legal entity that brings goods, or causes goods to be brought from a foreign country into a customs territory. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Importer |
| English words defined with "importer": Apporter ♦ Bill of sight, Bonded warehouse ♦ export credit ♦ import credit. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "importer": Advance Against Collection, Affreightment, Contract of ♦ BCO ♦ Commercial Invoice, Consumption Entry, Customs Entry ♦ Declared Value for Customs ♦ Entry Summary ♦ High Production Volume Chemicals ♦ Importer Number ♦ OPENER-VERIFIER-PACKER, CUSTOMS ♦ Sink habitat ♦ Warehouse, U.S. Customs Bonded. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Importer" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (import, introduce, matter). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Poland is a major importer of pharmaceuticals. (references) | |
Or through local importer dealers or manufacturer's representatives. (references) | ||
The strategy for each brand is developed in country by the local importer. (references) | ||
Economic History | Bangladesh | Bangladesh is a net importer of apples. (references) |
Australia | Australia is a net importer of services. (references) | |
Sudan | However, Sudan remains a net importer of food. (references) | |
Political Economy | ALGERIA | The United States is the second largest importer of Algerian goods (mostly hydrocarbons). (references) |
KUWAIT | To complete clearance, the importer presents its import license and quality test certificate. (references) | |
MEXICO | The procedures allow expansion of the ownership of a NOM certificate to more than one importer. (references) | |
Trade | Venezuela | These stickers must also identify the importer. (references) |
Costa Rica | The Costa Rican importer must obtain the permits. (references) | |
Ireland | These transit documents are completed by the importer. (references) | |
Travel | Netherlands | If such literature cannot be provided, the U.S. exporter should work with the Dutch importer or distributor to have the products labeled in the Netherlands. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Importer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Importer" is used about 199 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 199 | 21,651 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "importer": leading importer. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "importer": buyer-importer, capital-importer. | |
| 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 |
importer | 620 |
digital camera importer | 404 |
adzuki bean importer | 175 |
agrichemistry importer | 150 |
agriculturist importer | 126 |
agriproduct importer | 125 |
agribusiness importer | 121 |
game importer | 120 |
agro biology importer | 102 |
allspice importer | 101 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "importer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | importues. (various references) | |
Arabic | مستوردالسلع, المستورد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вносител (shipper). (various references) | |
Chinese | 进口商. (various references) | |
Czech | importér, dovozce. (various references) | |
Danish | importør. (various references) | |
Dutch | importeur. (various references) | |
Farsi | واردکننده . (various references) | |
Finnish | tuoja (bearer). (various references) | |
French | importateur (importing). (various references) | |
German | importeur. (various references) | |
Greek | εισαγωγέας. (various references) | |
Hebrew | יבואן. (various references) | |
Hungarian | importőr. (various references) | |
Italian | importatore. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 輸入業者 (import merchant, importing firm). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゆにゅうぎょうしゃ (import merchant, importing firm). (various references) | |
Korean | 수입상. (various references) | |
Manx | ymmyrkagh stiagh, kionneyder stiagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | importeray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | importador (import-export bank), coisa importada. (various references) | |
Romanian | importator. (various references) | |
Russian | импортер. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uvoznik. (various references) | |
Spanish | importador (import). (various references) | |
Swedish | importör. (various references) | |
Turkish | ithalatçı. (various references) | |
Ukranian | імпортер. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người nhập khẩu, người nhập h ng, hãng nhập khẩu, hãng nhập h ng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "importer": importers. (additional references) | |
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"Importer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emporer, importa, importes, importure. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "importer" (pronounced i'mpô"rter) |
| 5 | -p ô" r t er | exporter, porter, reporter, supporter, transporter. |
| 4 | -ô" r t er | Courter, mortar, quarter, shorter, sorter. |
| 3 | -r t er | barter, Carter, charter, darter, garter, headquarter, hindquarter, martyr, nonstarter, Sartor, smarter, starter, tartar, Tarter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reimport. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-m-o-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: pierrot, preriot, pretrim, primero. | |
-2 letters: import, mopier, optime, permit, porter, pretor, primer, protei, report, retrim, rioter, romper, ropier, termor, tremor, trimer, trompe. | |
-3 letters: merit, metro, miter, mitre, moire, moper, ormer, prier, prime, primo, prior, proem, remit, repot, repro, retro, rimer, riper, roper, tempi, tempo, timer, toper, trier, tripe, tromp, trope. | |
-4 letters: emir, emit, item, mire, mite, mope, more, mort, mote, omer, omit, peri, perm, pert, pier, poem, poet, pome, pore, port, prim, prom, repo, rime, riot, ripe, rite, romp, rope, rote, roti, temp, term, tier, time, tire, tiro, tome, tope, topi, tore, tori, torr, trim, trio, trip, trop. | |
-5 letters: err, imp, ire, met, mir, mop, mor, mot, ope, opt, ore, ort, per, pet, pie, pit, poi, pom, pot, pro, rei, rem, rep, ret, rim, rip, roe, rom, rot, tie, tip, toe, tom, top, tor. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-m-o-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: imperator, importers, misreport, reimports. | |
+2 letters: imperators, importuner, misreports, pyrometric, reimported, spirometer, spirometry, temporizer. | |
+3 letters: cryptomeria, imperforate, importuners, imprecatory, impregnator, impropriety, madreporite, misreported, polarimeter, polarimetry, premonitory, preromantic, pyrometries, reimporting, spirometers, spirometric, temporaries, temporarily, temporizers, trampoliner. | |
+4 letters: amperometric, cryptomerias, extemporizer, imperatorial, impersonator, impregnators, intercompare, madreporites, misreporting, morphometric, overtrumping, peremptorily, performative, polarimeters, polarimetric, preformation, premeditator, premigration, primogenitor, promontories, pteridosperm, pyromorphite, redemptioner, respirometer, respirometry, spirometries, thermotropic, trampoliners, trimethoprim. | |
+5 letters: bromocriptine, chromoprotein, extemporarily, extemporizers, hermaphrodite, heteromorphic, hypermetropia, hypermetropic, hyperromantic, impersonators, improprieties, improvisatore, intercompared, intercompares, interproximal, microcomputer, microparticle, micropuncture, moderatorship, morphometries, nonparametric, outperforming, overpromoting, performatives, polarimetries, preformations, preformatting, premeditators, premonitorily, preordainment, pretermission, primogenitors, primogeniture, psychrometric, pteridosperms, pyrheliometer, pyromorphites, redemptioners, reimportation, respirometers, respirometric, spectrometric, supermajority, superromantic, temporariness, theriomorphic, thermographic, thermospheric, thermotropism, trimethoprims. | |
| 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 65 72 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .--. --- .-. - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01110000 01101111 01110010 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m p o r t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 0070 006F 0072 0074 0065 0072 |
| 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)4379828184867184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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