importation has definitions from the fields of transportation,business
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[ noun ] (transportation,business) the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country

Synonyms

importing

Used in print

(Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)

New_Englanders were a_bit sensitive on the subject of their complicity in Negro slavery at the time of the drafting of the Declaration_of_Independence , as Jefferson explained in his `` Autobiography '' : `` The clause reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck_out in complaisance to South_Carolina and Georgia , who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves , and who on_the_contrary still wished to continue it .

Related terms

commerce smuggling import

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[ noun ] (business) commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country

Synonyms

import

Related terms

export commodity import

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