The commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country.

synonym: importing.

Roget 296: reception; admission, admittance, entree, importation; introduction, intromission; immission^†, ingestion, imbibation^†, introception^†, absorption, ingurgitation^†, inhalation; suction, sucking; eating, drinking etc. (food) 298; insertion etc. 300; interjection etc. 228; introit.    ... show more

Roget 300: insertion, implantation, introduction; insinuation etc. (intervention) 228; planting, etc. v.; injection, inoculation, importation, infusion; forcible ingress etc. 294; immersion; submersion, submergence, dip, plunge; bath etc. (water) 337; interment etc. 363.    clyster [Med.], enema, glyster^†, lavage, lavement^†.    ... show more

Roget 270: transfer, transference; translocation, elocation^†; displacement; metastasis, metathesis; removal; remotion^†, amotion^†; relegation; deportation, asportation^†; extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage; convection, conduction, contagion; transfer etc. (of property) 783.    transit, transition; passage, ferry, gestation; portage, porterage^†, carting, cartage; shoveling etc. v.; vection^†, vecture^†, vectitation^†; shipment, freight, wafture^†; transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption^†, transplantation, translation; shifting, dodging; dispersion etc. 73; transposition etc. (interchange) 148; traction etc. 285.    [Thing transferred] drift.    ... show more

Polish: importowanie

Commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country.

synonym: import.

Dutch: importgoederen, invoer
Polish: import