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Meaning of EXPORTATION

Pronunciation:  `ekspowr'teyshun

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country
  2. [n]  commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country
 
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 Synonyms: export, exporting
 
 Antonyms: import, importation
 
 See Also: commerce, commercialism, commodity, goods, mercantilism, trade goods

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ex`por*ta"tion\, n. [L. exportatio: cf. F.
exporation.]
1. The act of exporting; the act of conveying or sending
   commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of
   commerce.
2. Commodity exported; an export.
3. The act of carrying out. [R.] --Bourne.
 

 

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