Import
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Something brought in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade. The practice of importing. Significance, importance.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade. To load a file into a software application for use as a resource in a greater data file. To mean, signify To express, to imply. To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence. To be of importance to (someone or something). To be incumbent on (someone to do something). To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
Example sentence: The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
Importation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act or an instance of importing.The act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country.That which is imported; commodities or wares introduced into a country from abroad.