export

verb

/ɪkˈspɔːt/

/ˈek.spɔːrt/

Definition

B2 [I or T] to send goods to another country for sale: French cheeses are exported to many different countries. Our clothes sell so well in this country that we have no need to export. → Compare import verbSelling › [T] to put something from one country into use in other countries: American culture has been exported all over the world.Starting and beginningStarting again › [T] If you export information from a computer, you copy a large amount of it to a different part of the computer's memory or to another device.Operating computers exportable

/-ˈspɔː.tə.bl̩/

/-ˈspɔːr.t̬ə.bl̩/ adjective › The value of the new television technology to the company is that it is highly exportable (= can be sold in other countries).Selling exportation

/ˌek.spɔːˈteɪ.ʃən/

/-spɔːr-/ noun [U] › These crates have been packed for exportation (= to be sent for sale in other countries).Selling

(Definition of export verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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