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import

verb

(stress on the second syllable)

the UK imports 95 percent of its charcoal:

buy from abroad, bring from abroad, bring in, buy in, ship in, source from abroad.

▷antonyms export.

noun

(stress on the first syllable)

1 a tax levied on imports:

imported commodity, foreign commodity, nondomestic commodity.

▷antonyms export.

2 a ban on the import of foreign books:

importation, importing, introduction, bringing in, bringing from abroad, buying from abroad, sourcing from abroad, shipping in.

▷antonyms export.

3 a matter of great import:

importance, significance, consequence, moment, momentousness, magnitude, substance, weight, weightiness, note, noteworthiness, gravity, seriousness.

▷antonyms insignificance.

4 Seb suddenly realized the full import of her words:

meaning, sense, essence, gist, drift, purport, message, thrust, substance, sum and substance, implication, signification, point, burden, tenor, spirit;

pith, core, nub;

informal nitty-gritty.