Associations to the word «Importation»

Wiktionary

IMPORTATION, noun. The act or an instance of importing.
IMPORTATION, noun. The act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country.
IMPORTATION, noun. That which is imported; commodities or wares introduced into a country from abroad.

Dictionary definition

IMPORTATION, noun. The commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country.
IMPORTATION, noun. Commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne