IMPORTING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country

Synonyms:

importation; importing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("importing" is a kind of...):

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "importing"):

smuggling (secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due)

Derivation:

import (bring in from abroad)

-ing form of the verb import