1The bringing of goods or services into a country from abroad for sale.
manufacturers fought to restrict the importation of cheap foreign goods
the government takes a tough stance on illegal drug importation
Example sentencesExamples
The Federal Noxious Weed Law (1974) controls the importation of weed species into the United States.
The effect of the rule was "to prevent the importation of those supplies which were indispensable for an armed resistance to Great Britain."
The importation of foreign films was strongly curtailed.
The figures of slave importations on the eve of the American Civil War bear this out - an expansion of the trade was the only way to procure more slaves.
The European Commission used the protocol to ban importation of U.S. biotech crops.
She is working hard to make prescription drugs more affordable and importation from Canada legal.
Local officials reportedly profited handsomely from the illegal importation of used cars.
Congress has determined the value of imported goods to be their customs' value upon importation.
What the regulations do is prohibit the importation of guns.
Commercial loans for the importation of equipment are allowed up to 100 per cent of the amount invested.
2The introduction of an idea from a different place or context.
his avid importation of ideas from European and Asian thinkers
Example sentencesExamples
His madrigals were probably the first to be known to English composers before the importation of madrigals from Italy was customary.
The author has a good deal to say about Emerson's importation of Asian literature into his own poems and the subsequent congeniality of Buddhism for other writers in the American canon.
One of the colonists ' importations was viticulture.
Jumping and weight throwing he regarded as traditional Irish events; racing and cycling were dismissed as English importations.
It was not the attempted importation of the Anglo-American model that was to blame for Asia's startling economic collapse in 1998.
What we have here is the perfect illustration of just what can happen to cultural importations once they make their way into the Japanese cultural mainstream.
Art on Russian soil was essentially an importation of ecclesiastical models, chiefly icons, derived from Byzantine art.
The cult of St Zita, a household servant saint, is a late medieval importation from Lucca.
He is referring to the internationalisation of English fiction that took place in the 1980s, but there was also importation from a native English tradition.
Globalisation, he admits, does mean 'the importation of Western culture' into poor countries.
Definition of importation in US English:
importation
nounˌimpôrˈtāSHən
1The bringing of goods or services into a country from abroad for sale.
manufacturers fought to restrict the importation of cheap foreign goods
the government takes a tough stance on illegal drug importation
Example sentencesExamples
The European Commission used the protocol to ban importation of U.S. biotech crops.
What the regulations do is prohibit the importation of guns.
The figures of slave importations on the eve of the American Civil War bear this out - an expansion of the trade was the only way to procure more slaves.
The effect of the rule was "to prevent the importation of those supplies which were indispensable for an armed resistance to Great Britain."
Commercial loans for the importation of equipment are allowed up to 100 per cent of the amount invested.
The importation of foreign films was strongly curtailed.
She is working hard to make prescription drugs more affordable and importation from Canada legal.
Local officials reportedly profited handsomely from the illegal importation of used cars.
Congress has determined the value of imported goods to be their customs' value upon importation.
The Federal Noxious Weed Law (1974) controls the importation of weed species into the United States.
2The introduction of an idea from a different place or context.
his avid importation of ideas from European and Asian thinkers
Example sentencesExamples
Jumping and weight throwing he regarded as traditional Irish events; racing and cycling were dismissed as English importations.
Art on Russian soil was essentially an importation of ecclesiastical models, chiefly icons, derived from Byzantine art.
What we have here is the perfect illustration of just what can happen to cultural importations once they make their way into the Japanese cultural mainstream.
The author has a good deal to say about Emerson's importation of Asian literature into his own poems and the subsequent congeniality of Buddhism for other writers in the American canon.
One of the colonists ' importations was viticulture.
It was not the attempted importation of the Anglo-American model that was to blame for Asia's startling economic collapse in 1998.
The cult of St Zita, a household servant saint, is a late medieval importation from Lucca.
Globalisation, he admits, does mean 'the importation of Western culture' into poor countries.
His madrigals were probably the first to be known to English composers before the importation of madrigals from Italy was customary.
He is referring to the internationalisation of English fiction that took place in the 1980s, but there was also importation from a native English tradition.