Usually means: Bringing goods or services in.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word import:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. import: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. import: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. import: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. import: Collins English Dictionary
  5. import: Vocabulary.com
  6. import: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. import: Wiktionary
  8. import: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. import: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. import: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. import: Dictionary.com
  12. import (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. import: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Import (international trade), Import: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Import: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. import: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. import: Rhymezone
  18. Import (m), Import: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. import: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. import: Free Dictionary
  21. import: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. import: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. import: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Import, import: Wordnik

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. import: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. import: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Import: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  6. Import: Investopedia
  7. Import (international trade), import: Legal dictionary
  8. Import (international trade), import: Financial dictionary
  9. Import: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. import: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. import: Netlingo
  3. import: CCI Computer
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. Import (international trade), import: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. import: Political
  2. import: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. import: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  6. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See importable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
noun:  (uncountable) The practice of importing.
noun:  (uncountable) Significance, importance.
noun:  (countable, Philippines) A foreigner playing in a sports league.
verb:  (transitive) To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
verb:  (transitive) To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
verb:  (intransitive) To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
verb:  (transitive) To be of importance to (someone or something).
verb:  (transitive) To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
verb:  (transitive) To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
verb:  (transitive) To mean, signify.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To express, to imply.

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