export
/'ekspɔ:t/
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Definition
Verb:
- To send goods or services to another country for sale or trade: The primary meaning, referring to the commercial activity of selling domestic products abroad.
- To transmit or introduce an idea, system, or culture to another place: To cause something abstract (like a concept or practice) to spread to another country or region.
- To transfer data from one computer system or program to another, typically in a compatible format: A technical meaning in computing, involving the extraction and conversion of data for use elsewhere.
Noun:
- A product or service sold to a foreign country: The item or commodity that is exported.
- The act or business of exporting goods and services: The process or industry of sending goods abroad for sale.
Usage Examples
Verb:
- The country plans to export more agricultural products next year.
- The software allows you to export the report as a PDF file.
- Ancient Rome exported its legal principles throughout its empire.
Noun:
- Coffee is the nation's main export.
- The new trade agreement boosted exports by 15%.
Advanced Usage
"Export-oriented": An adjective describing an economy, industry, or company focused primarily on producing goods for foreign markets.
- The country has an export-oriented manufacturing sector.
"Export controls": Government regulations that restrict or monitor the export of certain goods, especially sensitive technologies or military items.
- The company must comply with strict export controls for its software.
"Invisible export": Refers to the export of services (e.g., banking, tourism) rather than physical goods.
- Financial services are a major invisible export for the country.
Variants and Related Words
Exporter (n): A person, company, or country that sends goods or services to another country.
- She is a leading exporter of organic tea.
Exportation (n): The formal act or process of exporting.
- The exportation of cultural artifacts is heavily regulated.
Exportable (adj): Suitable or available for export.
- The product's lightweight design makes it highly exportable.
Synonyms
- Ship out: To send goods away, especially abroad.
- Trade: To buy and sell goods and services (a broader term that includes export).
- Transmit: To pass or spread something (used for abstract things like ideas).
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Export to: The standard construction for specifying the destination.
- The firm exports machinery to over thirty countries.
Related Idioms
- Export one's problems: (Figurative) To cause a domestic issue to affect another country, often by offloading a difficult situation.
- Critics accused the government of trying to export its unemployment problems through aggressive foreign labor policies.
Noun
- commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country
Verb
- cause to spread in another part of the world
- The Russians exported Marxism to Africa
- transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs
- sell or transfer abroad
- we export less than we import and have a negative trade balance