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import

verb [T]
 
 
/ɪmˈpɔːt/ US  /ˈɪm.pɔːrt/

Definition

B2 to buy or bring in products from another country: We import a large number of cars from Japan. → Compare export verbBuying to introduce new goods, customs, or ideas to one country from another: The fashion for wearing baseball hats was imported directly from the States.Transferring and transporting objects specialized to copy information from one computer or computer program to another: I need to import data from the database into my word processor. imported filesOperating computers
(Definition of import verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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