export
UK /ˈɛks.pɔːt/ · US /ˈɛks.pɔɹt/ adjective, noun, verb
Forms exports exporting exported
- adjective Of or relating to exportation or exports.
- noun (countable) Something that is exported. “Oil is the main export of Saudi Arabia.”
- noun (uncountable) The act of exporting. “The export of fish is forbidden in this country.”
- verb (transitive) To carry away.
- verb (transitive) To sell (goods) to a foreign country. “Japan exports electronic goods throughout the world.”
- verb (transitive) To cause to spread in another part of the world.
- verb (transitive, computing) To send (data) from one program to another.
- verb (transitive) To put up (a child) for international adoption.
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Etymology
From Latin exportare.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To carry away; to remove. [Obs.]
- verb To carry or send abroad, or out of a country, especially to foreign countries, as merchandise or commodities in the way of commerce; --the opposite of import; as, to export grain, cotton, cattle, goods, etc.
- noun The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco.
- noun That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; --used chiefly in the plural, exports.
Etymology [L. exportare, exportatum; ex out+portare to carry : cf. F. exporter. See Port demeanor.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “export”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details