Export Definition

ĭk-spôrt, ĕkspôrt
exported, exporting, exports
verb
exported, exporting, exports
To carry or send (goods) to another country or other countries, esp. for purposes of sale.
Webster's New World
To cause the spread of (an idea, for example) in another part of the world; transmit.
American Heritage
To carry or send (ideas, culture, etc.) from one place to another.
Webster's New World
To carry off; transport.
Webster's New World
To use an application to store (data) on disk, usually for use by another program.
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noun
exports
Exportation.
American Heritage
Something exported.
Webster's New World
The act or process of exporting.
Webster's New World
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adjective
Of or for exporting or exports.
Webster's New World

Origin of Export

  • Middle English exsport from Latin exportāre ex- ex- portāre to carry per-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin exportare.

    From Wiktionary

Export Sentence Examples

  • There is an export trade in opium.

  • There is little export of the news with the only means of communication being local travelers.

  • The trade is chiefly confined to the export of cotton.

  • The chief product of the islands are bananas; the chief export sandal-wood.

  • You will export such articles as the country affords, purely native products, much ice and pine timber and a little granite, always in native bottoms.

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Words Starting With

EEXEXP

Words Ending With

TRTORT

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export

Words Starting With E and Ending With T

Starts With E & Ends With TStarts With EX & Ends With TStarts With E & Ends With RT

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With E6 Letter Words Ending With T