export

ex|port1 [ `ek,spɔrt ] noun ***

1. ) uncount the practice or business of selling goods to another country:

a new law controlling the export of works of art

for export: They are now manufacturing more goods for export.

2. ) count a product that is sold to another country:

Agricultural products are the country's largest export.

export to/from: the increase in oil exports to the West

─ opposite IMPORT

export

ex|port 2 [ ık`spɔrt ] verb **

1. ) intransitive or transitive to send a product to another country for selling there:

Their flowers are exported around the world.

export something to/from somewhere: Rocket parts are being illegally exported to other countries.

2. ) transitive to introduce an idea, tradition, or activity into another country:

nations that export terrorism

3. ) transitive COMPUTING to copy information from a computer system so it can be stored in another part of the computer or in a different form

╾ ex|port|a|tion [ ,ekspɔr`teıʃn ] noun uncount

─ opposite IMPORT

export

ex|port 3 [ `ek,spɔrt ] adjective

relating to or used in the sale of goods to another country:

export earnings/credits/controls

an export license/quota/tax/subsidy

export market: Since 1956 the U.S. has been Britain's largest export market.

export trade: Current interest rates are causing damage to the export trade.

─ opposite IMPORT