export

Something that is exported.

Adjective

  1. Of or relating to exportation or exports.

Origin

From Latin exportare.

Noun

  1. Something that is exported.
    • Oil is the main export of Saudi Arabia.
  2. The act of exporting.
    • The export of fish is forbidden in this country.

Forms

exports

Synonyms

exportation

Antonyms

import importation

Derived

antiexport co-export coexport export subsidy invisible export nonexport reexport

Verb

  1. To carry away.
    • [They] export honour from a man, and make him a return in envy. - 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Followers and Friends”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

    Synonyms: remove

  2. To sell (goods) to a foreign country.
    • Japan exports electronic goods throughout the world.
    • Jim is a nurseryman, specialising in clematis, and he has built up a business exporting 150 varieties to countries all over the world. - 1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page...

    Antonyms: import

  3. To cause to spread in another part of the world.
  4. To send (data) from one program to another.

    Antonyms: import

  5. To put up (a child) for international adoption.

Forms

exports exporting exported

Derived

antiexporting co-export coexport exportability exportable exportation exporter exportin exportome nonexported nonexporting reexport re-export unexport unexported