Meaning of export in English

export

verb

/ˈek.spɔːrt/ uk

/ɪkˈspɔːt/

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B2 [ I or T ]

to send goods to another country for sale:

be exported to French cheeses are exported to many different countries.

Our clothes sell so well in this country that we have no need to export.

Opposite

import

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to sell something

sellAre you selling your car?
retailThe company makes and retails moderately priced sportswear.
deal inThey mainly deal in rare books.
divestUS The investors divested themselves of the company's stock.
sell offThe company is selling off the less profitable parts of its business.

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[ T ]

to put something from one country into use in other countries:

American culture has been exported all over the world.

[ T ]

If you export information from a computer, you copy a large amount of it to a different part of the computer's memory or to another device.

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We export our products to countries as far afield as Japan and Canada.
Japan exported $117 billion in merchandise to the US in 1999.
Japan exports a huge quantity of cars around the world.
An alarming number of these animals are being exported for the pet trade.
At one time, Cornwall exported millions of tons of copper and tin around the world.

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exportable

exportation

export

noun [ C or U ]

/ˈek.spɔːrt/ uk

/ˈek.spɔːt/

a product that you sell in another country, or the business of sending goods to another country in order to sell them there:

main export Coffee is one of Brazil's main exports.

We plan to increase our exports over the next five years.

export of The export of ivory is now strictly controlled.

for export India grows tea for export.

export market We are planning to develop our export market.

export trade Most of the country's export trade is with Russia.

Opposite

import

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These products are not for national consumption, but for export.
The main crops grown for export are coffee and rice.
Iraq's principal export is oil.
Coffee exports earn Brazil many millions of dollars a year.
In geography, we learned what were the main imports and exports of each country.

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Products & producers

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(Definition of export from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

export | Intermediate English

export

verb [ I/T ]

/ekˈspɔrt, -ˈspoʊrt/

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to send goods to another country for sale or use:

[ T ] Chile exports a large amount of copper to Japan.

exporter

noun [ C ] us

/ekˈspɔr·t̬ər, -ˈspoʊr-/

Japan is a major exporter of cars.

export

noun [ C/U ]

/ˈek·spɔrt, -spoʊrt/

something sold and taken out of a country and into another:

[ C ] Coffee is one of Brazil’s main exports.

Export is also the business of sending goods to another country in order to sell them there.

(Definition of export from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

export | Business English

export

verb

/ɪkˈspɔːt/ us

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[ I or T ] COMMERCE, ECONOMICS

to send goods to another country for sale:

Last year, the US exported $93 million worth of wine.

export sth to sth French cheeses are exported to many different countries.

The exchange rate is making it difficult for farms and factories to export.

Oil companies had contracts with an exporting countries that fixed prices and volumes.

See also

re-export

[ T ]

to put something from one country into use in other countries:

export sth to sth He believes the state's educational model can be exported to other states.

American culture has been exported all over the world.

[ T ] IT

to copy a large amount of information on a computer either to a different part of the computer's storage space or to another form of storage such as a CD, so that it can be used for a different purpose:

If they had all the right tools on the same platform they would not need to export data.

export sth to/into sth The only way to do this is to export the data into a spreadsheet.

export sth from sth This article tells you how to import and export files from UNIX to other systems.

exportable

adjective uk/ɪkˈspɔːtəbl̩/ us/-ˈspɔːrṱə-/

The value of the new television technology to the company is that it is highly exportable to other countries.

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import noun

export

noun

COMMERCE, ECONOMICS, TRANSPORT

/ˈekspɔːt/ us

[ C, usually plural ]

a product that you sell in another country:

Coffee is one of Brazil's main exports.

oil/arms/beef exports

increase/boost/promote exports We plan to increase our exports over the next five years.

ban/halt/control exports

a decline/growth in exports

See also

invisible exports

visible exports

[ U ]

the activity or business of sending goods to another country in order to sell them there:

the export of sth The ruling banned the export of live cattle.

Most of their crops are grown for export.

an export company/business

See also

direct export

indirect export

Compare

import verb

import-export

(Definition of export from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of export

export

The trade ministry says last month's rise in exports -- the first in 20 months -- may not be sustainable.

From Bloomberg

Short stories are one of fiction's most vital and necessary exports, though often they are not read with the frequency or fervor of longer novels.

From NPR

American exports are up 34 percent since the president gave that speech, and the number continues to rise.

From NPR

Whether we are producing for export or for the local market, prices have become unpredictable.

From CNN

That year, on average, it exported nearly five million barrels of oil per day.

From CNN

But these powers were not used to control petroleum exports.

From Reuters

Now it is all imported and our jobs have been exported.

From CNN

Tuesday's value was below 69c, which does give export processors some benefit.

From The Seattle Times

We could be exporting it instead of importing it.

From NPR

We refine some for ourselves and export crude -- which, in terms of volatility, is safer to transport.

From CNN

This increases the market supply in winter, further boosting both legal exports and smuggling -- and tightening the local supply still more, keeping prices high.

From Reuters

From there, they can export their findings for additional.

From VentureBeat

And they feared the high costs of creating a major new government department and developing export markets.

From Voice of America

And in this rapidly changing marketplace it's unlikely that producers can rely on exports alone to make use of all our unwanted dark meat.

From Slate Magazine

Apple has a long list of changes and errors that will occur when importing and exporting documents.

From The Verge

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Collocations with export

export

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agricultural export

However, the agricultural export promotion policy is not very cheap, as noted above.

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annual export

Webb arrives at an annual export simply by dividing the total by a decade.

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bulk export

Is not the real reason for setting up this bulk export organisation because we started bulk purchases?

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What is the pronunciation of export?

Translations of export

in Chinese (Traditional)

出口, 輸出, 把…帶到另一國家…

in Chinese (Simplified)

出口, 输出, 把…带到另一国家…

in Spanish

exportar, exportación, exportación [feminine]…

in Portuguese

exportar, artigo de exportação, exportação…

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निर्यात…

輸出, ～を輸出する, 輸出（ゆしゅつ）する…

ihracat, dış satım, ihraç malı…

exporter, export [masculine], produit [masculine] d’exportation…

exportació, exportar…

uitvoeren, uitvoer, uitvoerartikel…

விற்பனைக்காக பொருட்களை வேறொரு நாட்டிற்கு அனுப்புதல், நீங்கள் வேறொரு நாட்டில் விற்கும் ஒரு தயாரிப்பு, அல்லது அவற்றை விற்க வேறொரு நாட்டிற்கு பொருட்களை அனுப்பும் வணிகம்…

निर्यात करना, निर्यात, निर्यात किया जाने वाला उत्पाद…

નિકાસ કરવી, નિકાસ, ઉત્પાદન નિકાસ કરવાનું છે…

eksportere, eksport, eksportartikel…

exportera, export, exportvara…

eksport, mengeksport…

exportieren, ausführen, der Export…