Proponents of increased import duties are at odds with each other.
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Import
//ˈɪm.pɔːt//
Synonyms for "import" (297 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (60)
consequenceimportationmeaningsignificancespellaccentacceptationaccessadd up toadmissionaffective meaningallegorizeallegoryallude toallusionamount to somethingarcane meaningargueassignassume
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assumptionbe construed asbe featuredbe prominentbe somebodybe somethingbearingbespeakbetokenbreathebring inbring to mindcarry overcarry weightcolorationcoloringcommunicatecommunicationconcernconcernmentconductionconnotationconnoteconsequencesconsequentialityconsiderationconsignconstructioncontagioncontentconvectionconveycorecountcut icecut some ice
Noun(4 words)
Strong matches (89)
deliverdeliverydenotationdenotedeportdeportationdesigndiapedesisdiffusediffusiondisseminatedisseminationdrifteffectemphasisentailentranceentreeentryessence
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excellenceexpelexportexportationexpressexpulsionextensionextraditeextraditionforceget top billinggistgrammatical meaninghand forwardhand onhand overhigh orderhigh rankhintideaimpactimpartimplicateimplicationimplied meaningimplyimportanceimportancyimportingincomeincomingindicateinferinferenceinfiltrationingoingingressingressioninnuendoinputinsertioninsinuateinsinuationintakeintendintendmentintensionintentintentioninterchangeinterestinterpenetrationinterpretationintimateintimationintroduceintroductionintrogressionintrusioninvolveironic suggestionleakagelexical meaningliteral meaningmagnitude
Noun(4 words)
Related words (148)
make overmarkmaterialitymattermeanmean to saymeritmessagemetaphorical sensemetastasismetastasizemetathesismetathesizemetempsychosismigrationmomentmomentousnessmutual transfernotenuance
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objectobjectiveoccult meaningosmosisovertoneparamountcypasspass onpass overpass the buckpassagepassing overpenetrationpercolationperfuseperfusionpertinencepithpointpoint indirectly topractical consequenceprecedencepreeminencepresumepresumptionpresupposepresuppositionprimacyprioritypurportpurposerange of meaningreal meaningreceptionreferrefer toreferencereferentrelationrelayrelevancescopeseepageself-importancesemantic clustersemantic fieldsensesignificancysignificationsignificatumsignifiesignifyspan of meaningspiritspreadspreadingstand forstand outstarstressstructural meaningsubsensesubsidiary sensesubstancesuggestsuggestionsumsum and substancesuperioritysupposesuppositionsupremacyswitchsymbolic meaningsymbolismsymbolizetake for grantedtelltenorthrusttingetotality of associationstouchtransductiontransfertransfer of propertytransfer propertytransferencetransferred meaningtransfusetransfusiontransittransitiontranslatetranslationtranslocatetranslocationtransmigrationtransmigration of soulstransmissiontransmittransmittaltransmittancetransplacetransplacementtransplanttransplantationtransposaltransposetranspositiontravelturn overunadorned meaningundercurrentundermeaningunderstandingundertonevalueweighweightweightinessworth
Noun(5 words)
Verb(1 words)
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More general
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Antonyms
4 entriesSynonyms
6 entriesderived
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
distinct from
1 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
2 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
similar
1 entriesTranslations
253 translations across 70 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- import noun (practice of importing)
Arabic
4 entries- اِسْتِيرَاد noun (practice of importing)
- تَوْرِيد noun (practice of importing)
- وَارِدَات noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- اِسْتَوْرَدَ verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Armenian
3 entries- ներմուծում noun (practice of importing)
- ներածել verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
- ներմուծել verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Asturian
1 entries- importar verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- idxal noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- idxal noun (practice of importing)
- import noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- idxal etmək verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Belarusian
3 entries- уво́з noun (practice of importing)
- і́мпарт noun (practice of importing)
- імпартава́ць verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Bengali
1 entries- আমদানি noun (practice of importing)
Bulgarian
4 entries- внос noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- внос noun (practice of importing)
- значе́ние noun (significance, importance)
- импо́рт noun (practice of importing)
Burmese
3 entries- ဝင်ကုန် noun (practice of importing)
- သွင်းကုန် noun (practice of importing)
- တင်သွင်း verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Catalan
2 entries- importació noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- importar verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 輸入 /输入 noun (practice of importing)
- 進口 /进口 noun (practice of importing)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 外國貨 /外国货 noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- 舶來品 /舶来品 noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- 輸入 /输入 noun (practice of importing)
- 進口 /进口 noun (practice of importing)
Czech
3 entries- dovoz noun (practice of importing)
- import noun (practice of importing)
- dovézt verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Danish
4 entries- import noun (practice of importing)
- indførsel noun (practice of importing)
- importere verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
- indføre verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Dutch
4 entries- belang noun (significance, importance)
- gewicht noun (significance, importance)
- import noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- import noun (practice of importing)
Esperanto
3 entries- gravi verb (to be important)
- importi verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
- importi verb (to load files into a computer from another source)
Estonian
3 entries- import noun (practice of importing)
- (sisse) tooma verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
- importima verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Finnish
4 entries- importti noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- maahantuonti noun (practice of importing)
- merkityksellisyys noun (significance, importance)
- tuonti noun (practice of importing)
French
4 entries- importation noun (practice of importing)
- compter verb (to be important)
- importer verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
- importer verb (to load files into a computer from another source)
Galician
1 entries- importar verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Georgian
4 entries- იმპორტი noun (practice of importing)
- აიმპორტირებს verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
- იმპორტირება verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
- იმპორტირებას უწევს verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
German
4 entries- Einfuhr noun (practice of importing)
- Import noun (practice of importing)
- Importgut noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- Importware noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
Greek
3 entries- εισαγωγή noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- εισαγωγή noun (practice of importing)
- εισάγω verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Gujarati
1 entries- આયાત noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
Hebrew
3 entries- יְבוּא noun (practice of importing)
- ייבוא noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- ייבא verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Hindi
3 entries- आयात noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- आयात noun (practice of importing)
- आयात करना verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Hungarian
4 entries- behozatal noun (practice of importing)
- import noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- import noun (practice of importing)
- importálás noun (practice of importing)
Icelandic
3 entries- innflutningur noun (practice of importing)
- flytja inn verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
- flytja inn verb (to load files into a computer from another source)
Ido
1 entries- importacar verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Indonesian
2 entries- impor noun (practice of importing)
- mengimpor verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- وارِدات noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- وارِدات noun (practice of importing)
Irish
4 entries- allmhaire noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- allmhairiú noun (practice of importing)
- iompórtáil noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- iompórtáil noun (practice of importing)
Italian
2 entries- importazione noun (practice of importing)
- importare verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Japanese
3 entries- 輸入 noun (practice of importing)
- 輸入品 noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- 輸入する verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Kazakh
2 entries- импорт noun (practice of importing)
- импорттау verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Khmer
3 entries- ការនាំចូល noun (practice of importing)
- អាហរ័ណ noun (practice of importing)
- នាំចូល verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Korean
3 entries- 수입 noun (practice of importing)
- 수입품 noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- 수입하다 verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- импорт noun (practice of importing)
Lao
2 entries- ການນໍາເຂົ້າ noun (practice of importing)
- ນໍາເຂົ້າ verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Latin
1 entries- advectō verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Latvian
2 entries- imports noun (practice of importing)
- importēt verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Lithuanian
3 entries- importas noun (practice of importing)
- importúoti verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
- įvèžti verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- aféieren verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
- importéieren verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Macedonian
4 entries- зна́чење noun (significance, importance)
- и́мпорт noun (practice of importing)
- сми́сла noun (significance, importance)
- у́воз noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
Malay
1 entries- import noun (practice of importing)
Mongolian
1 entries- импорт noun (practice of importing)
Māori
1 entries- kawe mai verb (to load files into a computer from another source)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- import noun (practice of importing)
Pashto
1 entries- توريد noun (practice of importing)
Polish
4 entries- import noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- import noun (practice of importing)
- przywóz noun (practice of importing)
- importować verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Portuguese
4 entries- importados noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- importação noun (practice of importing)
- importância noun (significance, importance)
- significância noun (significance, importance)
Romanian
3 entries- import noun (practice of importing)
- importare noun (practice of importing)
- importa verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Russian
4 entries- ввоз noun (practice of importing)
- значе́ние noun (significance, importance)
- и́мпорт noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- и́мпорт noun (practice of importing)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- susbaint noun (significance, importance)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ìmport noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- ìmport noun (practice of importing)
- úvoz noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- úvoz noun (practice of importing)
Slovak
2 entries- dovoz noun (practice of importing)
- import noun (practice of importing)
Slovene
3 entries- uvoz noun (practice of importing)
- uvažati verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
- uvoziti verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Spanish
4 entries- importación noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- importación noun (practice of importing)
- importancia noun (significance, importance)
- significado noun (significance, importance)
Swedish
4 entries- betydelse noun (significance, importance)
- import noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- import noun (practice of importing)
- införsel noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
Tajik
2 entries- воридот noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- воридот noun (practice of importing)
Tatar
1 entries- импорт noun (practice of importing)
Thai
2 entries- การนำเข้า noun (practice of importing)
- นำเข้า verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Turkish
2 entries- ithal noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- ithalat noun (practice of importing)
Turkmen
1 entries- import noun (practice of importing)
Ukrainian
4 entries- вве́зення noun (practice of importing)
- ввіз noun (practice of importing)
- зна́чення noun (significance, importance)
- і́мпорт noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
Urdu
4 entries- آیات noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- آیات noun (practice of importing)
- اَہْمِیَت noun (significance, importance)
- اِمْپورْٹ noun (practice of importing)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئىمپورت noun (practice of importing)
Uzbek
1 entries- import noun (practice of importing)
Vietnamese
3 entries- nhập khẩu noun (practice of importing)
- nhập cảng verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
- nhập khẩu verb (to bring in from a foreign country)
Welsh
4 entries- mewnforio noun (practice of importing)
- mewnforyn noun (something brought in from a foreign country)
- pwys noun (significance, importance)
- bod o bwys verb (to be important)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
We import raw materials and export the finished products.
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We import coffee from Brazil.
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We import tea from India.
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