export Hear it!

export Definition

ex·port (ek spôrt′, ik-; also, and for n. & adj. always, eks′pôrt′)

transitive verb

  1. to carry or send (goods) to another country or other countries, esp. for purposes of sale
  2. to carry or send (ideas, culture, etc.) from one place to another
  3. Obsolete to carry off; transport

Etymology: L exportare < ex-, out + portare, to carry: see port

noun

  1. something exported
  2. the act or process of exporting

adjective

of or for exporting or exports

export Related Forms
ex·port′·able adjective ex·port′er noun
export Synonyms

export

n.

exportation, shipping, trading, foreign sale, overseas shipment, transoceanic cargo, commodity, merchant traffic, international trade, foreign trade.

export Synonyms

export

v.

send out, sell abroad, trade abroad, market abroad, ship, ship overseas, transport, convey outside, act as a shipper, transship, consign, find a foreign market, find a foreign outlet, dump*.

export Finance Definition
To sell goods or services to a company in another country. The level of exports helps to determine a country’s trade balance. If exports exceed the amount of imports, then the country has a trade surplus. If imports exceed exports, then the country has a trade deficit.
export Usage Examples

Object

  • ton: In the same time we exported 33,000 Tons of our own poultry back to them.

Converse of object

  • ban: The UN bans all exports from Iraq except under the oil-for-food program.
  • resume: The new proposals do not allow Iraq to resume normal exports.

Adjective modifier

  • non-oil: These account for over half Singapore's manufacturing and 60 % of its non-oil exports.
  • agricultural: The national economy is mainly dependent on three cash crops, which comprise 95 percent of the agricultural exports.
  • Iraqi: The first Iraqi oil exports under UN Security Council resolution 986 began in December 1996.

Modifies a noun

  • subsidy: Farm prices are now in free fall, driven down by export subsidies in rich countries.
  • earning: Vanilla accounts for 10 per cent of Madagascar's export earnings.
  • license: He also asked what guidelines or ethical criteria were applied to applications for export licenses.
  • market: A country's success in ETS export markets can also be measured in jobs created.
  • credit: Those who give bribes should be dealt with... Firms who bribe should be refused export credits " .
  • control: Export control regimes are not explicitly mandated by the Treaty.

Noun used with modifier

  • beef: We will continue to battle in the new parliament to ensure that the door is opened to Northern Ireland beef exports.
  • arm: Their findings suggest that a more responsible approach to arms exports is not a question of economic loss versus moral gain.
  • oil: Russia plans to expand its share of oil exports over the next 18 months.
  • GIF: This menu button will only appear for GIF export.

Preposition: of

  • beef: Exports of British beef to Europe and beyond have been banned for 19 months due to the outbreak.
  • wool: In 1331 the export of unwashed wool was prohibited by King Edward III.
  • currency: Currency restrictions: The import and export of local currency is prohibited.
  • commodity: It was very near the value of the world's annual exports of all commodities.
export Quotes

To attempt to export revolution is nonsense.

—Stalin,Joseph originally Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili

Export or die.

—Anonymous