importationn.

Brit.

/ˌɪmpɔːˈteɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌɪmpɔrˈteɪʃən/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: import v., -ation suffix.

Etymology: < import v. + -ation suffix. Compare post-classical Latin importatio (a1536). Compare earlier import n., and also exportation n.

a. The action or practice of importing a commodity, merchandise, goods, etc., from another country or territory for use or resale in the domestic market; an instance of this. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > importing and exporting > [noun] > importing

inbringinga1387

venuea1483

importationa1558

importing1568

import1592

a1558 W. Paget Let. in Camden Misc. (1974) XXV. 126 Now of late thexportation and importation of wares is so moch increased.

1624 N. Ferrar Diary May in D. R. Ransome 17th-cent. Polit. & Financial Papers (1996) iii. 91 A graunt of the sole Importation of Currans, Zant Oyle, and Greek Wynes.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 29 [Licensing] hinders and retards the importation of our richest Marchandize, Truth.

1663 J. Heath Chron. Late Intestine War ii. 468 The French also had prohibited the Importation of Cloth into France.

1732 W. Arnall Let. Freeholder 61 All Duties paid the Government on Importation, cost the Government Ten per Cent. for prompt Payment.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. i. 28 Restraints upon the importation of such foreign goods for home-consumption as could be produced at home.

1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. i. 3 To authorize a restricted importation of foreign silks.

1877 Daily News 3 Nov. 6/6 In violation of the Dominion Act regarding the importation of cattle from prohibited countries.

1922 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 19 Feb. D3/5 Restrictions on the importations of anemone bulbs.

1976 Highlights U.S. Export & Import Trade (U.S. Bureau of Census) 1/2 The month of importation is based on the date of official acceptance by Customs of the import entry.

2005 P. Van den Bossche Law & Policy World Trade Organization i. 41 WTO Members are not allowed to ban the importation or exportation of goods.

b. gen. The action or practice of bringing in or introducing something from another place, source, or context; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > [noun]

importing1568

importation1616

injection1622

introducement1638

introduction1651

introducing1657

usherage1661

usherance1711

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > bringing in

inbringinga1387

invection1598

ushering1598

induction1604

importation1616

introducing1657

introduction1710

1616 S. Page 9 Serm. 48 The importation of strange and corrupt manners brought out of other countries.

1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ 239 The Instruments..which serve for importation, and reception of the bloud and spirits.

1756 S. Foote Englishman return'd from Paris i. 28 Travel is the Word, and the Consequence, an Importation of every foreign Folly.

1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 112 For more than fifty years..no importation of the disease into this city was suspected.

1874 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. (ed. 4) i. iv. 141 The usual test of the importation of a new style.

1903 Q. Jrnl. Inebriety 25 99 There must be a greater amplitude of the respiratory movement in order to increase the importation of oxygen.

1992 PC Mag. 31 Mar. 321/2 Team-Up offers importation of partial records or fields, and the import format need not match that of the database.

2012 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 Nov. 4 He did not think Australians wanted to see the importation of American-style campaigning.

2. concrete.

a. Something brought in or introduced from another place, source, or context; spec. a commodity, article, etc., imported from another country or territory for use or resale in the domestic market. Also (in plural): the amount or quantity imported; imports collectively.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > imports or exports

outgate1573

import1638

importation1656

allation1657

exportation1665

export1690

re-export1728

exportable1873

inwards1878

visibles1962

1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon vi. 256 Some man would goe make an estimate of Papall Importations, as Parchment, and Lead, and Wax, and Crosses, [etc.].

1665 S. Pepys Diary 27 Jan. (1972) VI. 23 If the exportations exceed importations.

1728 D. Defoe Plan Eng. Commerce i. vi. 192 Nor is their home Consumption of foreign Importations great.

1733 J. Swift Thoughts on Var. Subj. in J. Swift et al. Misc. I. 307 Solomon's Importation, Gold and Apes.

1792 Remarks New Sugar-bill 68 Among other new importations, useful animals should not be forgotten.

1834 Q. Literary Advertiser Jan. sig. C2^v A Catalogue of American Books, including the latest importations, at affixed prices.

1865 Friends' Intelligencer 22 Apr. 109/2 Nearly all the flowers they exhibit, are grown in pots, and most of them are importations from a southern soil.

1873 Coral Missionary Mag. Feb. 22 A box of toys would be rather an expensive importation out here.

1903 Syren & Shipping 15 Apr. 185/1 In 1866 the importations totalled 316,979 loads.

1927 W. Cather Death comes for Archbishop i. iii. 34 The desk at which the Bishop sat writing was an importation, a walnut ‘secretary’ of American make.

1968 Observer's Bk. Horses & Ponies (rev. ed.) 10 The percheron, a comparatively new importation, has set his impressive and worthy bulk firmly into the roots of East Anglia.

2000 S. Lieberson Matters of Taste v. 112 Some [names] are literally new... Others are importations from different cultures or subcultures.

b. A person who has been brought in, or who has come in, from another country or region to visit, work, or live; an immigrant; spec. a sports player brought in to a team from elsewhere.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > migrant > [noun] > immigrant

comelinga1325

incomer1526

income1555

comer1581

adventivea1626

transplanteea1687

immigrantc1787

importation1787

migrant1795

immigrator1836

importee1858

metic1904

wog1966

1787 Minor (Dublin ed.) I. ix. 90 Lady Mask, Lady Lamb, Mrs. Clacker, Miss Grizzle, and several other late importations from the country, made their entry sidewise.

1826 New Monthly Mag. 16 243 This gentleman is an importation from the country which has to boast of the artists Alston, Leslie, and Newton.

1870 ‘C. Hay’ Club & Drawing-room II. xi. 227 Look at that child there—she is a new importation from the country.

1893 Westm. Gaz. 27 Mar. 7/2 Their eleven is entirely representative, and possesses no Scotch or Welsh importations.

1943 Mich. Alumnus 2 Oct. 24/1 The Wildcats possessed a strong team, dotted with stars obtained from their own ranks and from Navy importations.

1987 I. Radforth Bushworkers & Bosses ii. 32 With the arrival of the importations, the lumberjacks..reconsidered in many instances their prospects.

1996 Irish Times (Nexis) 12 Feb. (Sport Suppl.) 2 By no means the quickest or most mobile importation to arrive in this country from Britain.

3. Logic. The inference that if a proposition implies that a second proposition implies a third, then the first and second together imply the third. Cf. exportation n. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [noun] > implication > importation or exportation

exportation1903

importation1903

1903 B. Russell Princ. Math. ii. 16 If p implies that q implies r, then pq implies r. This is the principle of importation.

1918 C. I. Lewis Surv. Symbolic Logic iv. 231 This theorem contains Peano's..Principle of Importation.

1957 P. Suppes Introd. to Logic ii. 34 Law of Importation [P→(Q→R)]→[P & Q→R].

1965 G. E. Hughes & D. G. Londey Elements Formal Logic xv. 113 T 20 is known as the Law of Importation.., since its effect is to ‘import’ the antecedent of the consequent into the antecedent of the whole wff.

1999 Jrnl. Philos. 96 409 In the presence of several standard assumptions about conditionals, the law of importation is inconsistent with the view that (1) and (2) are both true and (3) is false.

Compounds

General attributive (in sense 1), as importation duty, importation tariff, importation trade, etc.

ΚΠ

1721 L. Baden Proposal Paying Debts Nation 5 It would then..increase the Exportation and Importation Duties.

1750 T. Short Disc. Tea v. 25 The former standing Subsidy or Custom of 13 l. 18 s. 7 d. ½ of Importation Duty on every 100 l. worth of Tea.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. v. 120 The importance of the inland trade must be to that of the importation trade as five hundred and seventy to one.

1808 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 604 If I could lay an embargo, or pass a new importation law against corruption and foreign influence.

1848 Daily Sentinel & Gaz. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 15 Sept. Purchased of the largest importation Houses in the city of New York.

1877 G. W. Greene Short Hist. Rhode Island xvii. 135 The Assembly upon petition remitted to them the importation tax.

1915 Northwestern Miller 3 Nov. 319/4 Germany granted very liberal terms in her importation tariffs for this article coming from Russia.

1947 Billboard 22 Nov. 85/2 The regulation removes free-play games from the importation ban of gaming devices.

2011 J. Roberts & E. Wright Amer. Desperado 433 Sometimes I also work in the importation business.

Derivatives

imporˈtational adj. of or relating to importation (chiefly in sense 1).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [adjective] > terms relating to implication

implicative1602

implicational1881

importational1922

co-implicative1939

1922 C. L. Meisinger in Monthly Weather Rev. (U.S.) Suppl. No. 21. 59/2 This disturbance is nearly circular, its importational power is most perfectly developed, and low temperature is found intruding from the west.

1935 Mind 44 154 Importational logograms (analogous to definitions) are introduced by fiat.

2000 Guardian 22 Jan. (Saturday section) 2/7 The England coach, Kevin Keegan, this week declared his dismay at the implications of this importational tendency for the future of English football.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	importation
释义	importationn. Brit. /ˌɪmpɔːˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌɪmpɔrˈteɪʃən/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: import v., -ation suffix. Etymology: < import v. + -ation suffix. Compare post-classical Latin importatio (a1536). Compare earlier import n., and also exportation n. 1. a. The action or practice of importing a commodity, merchandise, goods, etc., from another country or territory for use or resale in the domestic market; an instance of this. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > importing and exporting > [noun] > importing inbringinga1387 venuea1483 importationa1558 importing1568 import1592 a1558 W. Paget Let. in Camden Misc. (1974) XXV. 126 Now of late thexportation and importation of wares is so moch increased. 1624 N. Ferrar Diary May in D. R. Ransome 17th-cent. Polit. & Financial Papers (1996) iii. 91 A graunt of the sole Importation of Currans, Zant Oyle, and Greek Wynes. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 29 [Licensing] hinders and retards the importation of our richest Marchandize, Truth. 1663 J. Heath Chron. Late Intestine War ii. 468 The French also had prohibited the Importation of Cloth into France. 1732 W. Arnall Let. Freeholder 61 All Duties paid the Government on Importation, cost the Government Ten per Cent. for prompt Payment. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. i. 28 Restraints upon the importation of such foreign goods for home-consumption as could be produced at home. 1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. i. 3 To authorize a restricted importation of foreign silks. 1877 Daily News 3 Nov. 6/6 In violation of the Dominion Act regarding the importation of cattle from prohibited countries. 1922 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 19 Feb. D3/5 Restrictions on the importations of anemone bulbs. 1976 Highlights U.S. Export & Import Trade (U.S. Bureau of Census) 1/2 The month of importation is based on the date of official acceptance by Customs of the import entry. 2005 P. Van den Bossche Law & Policy World Trade Organization i. 41 WTO Members are not allowed to ban the importation or exportation of goods. b. gen. The action or practice of bringing in or introducing something from another place, source, or context; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > [noun] importing1568 importation1616 injection1622 introducement1638 introduction1651 introducing1657 usherage1661 usherance1711 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > bringing in inbringinga1387 invection1598 ushering1598 induction1604 importation1616 introducing1657 introduction1710 1616 S. Page 9 Serm. 48 The importation of strange and corrupt manners brought out of other countries. 1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ 239 The Instruments..which serve for importation, and reception of the bloud and spirits. 1756 S. Foote Englishman return'd from Paris i. 28 Travel is the Word, and the Consequence, an Importation of every foreign Folly. 1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 112 For more than fifty years..no importation of the disease into this city was suspected. 1874 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. (ed. 4) i. iv. 141 The usual test of the importation of a new style. 1903 Q. Jrnl. Inebriety 25 99 There must be a greater amplitude of the respiratory movement in order to increase the importation of oxygen. 1992 PC Mag. 31 Mar. 321/2 Team-Up offers importation of partial records or fields, and the import format need not match that of the database. 2012 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 Nov. 4 He did not think Australians wanted to see the importation of American-style campaigning. 2. concrete. a. Something brought in or introduced from another place, source, or context; spec. a commodity, article, etc., imported from another country or territory for use or resale in the domestic market. Also (in plural): the amount or quantity imported; imports collectively. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > imports or exports outgate1573 import1638 importation1656 allation1657 exportation1665 export1690 re-export1728 exportable1873 inwards1878 visibles1962 1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon vi. 256 Some man would goe make an estimate of Papall Importations, as Parchment, and Lead, and Wax, and Crosses, [etc.]. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 27 Jan. (1972) VI. 23 If the exportations exceed importations. 1728 D. Defoe Plan Eng. Commerce i. vi. 192 Nor is their home Consumption of foreign Importations great. 1733 J. Swift Thoughts on Var. Subj. in J. Swift et al. Misc. I. 307 Solomon's Importation, Gold and Apes. 1792 Remarks New Sugar-bill 68 Among other new importations, useful animals should not be forgotten. 1834 Q. Literary Advertiser Jan. sig. C2^v A Catalogue of American Books, including the latest importations, at affixed prices. 1865 Friends' Intelligencer 22 Apr. 109/2 Nearly all the flowers they exhibit, are grown in pots, and most of them are importations from a southern soil. 1873 Coral Missionary Mag. Feb. 22 A box of toys would be rather an expensive importation out here. 1903 Syren & Shipping 15 Apr. 185/1 In 1866 the importations totalled 316,979 loads. 1927 W. Cather Death comes for Archbishop i. iii. 34 The desk at which the Bishop sat writing was an importation, a walnut ‘secretary’ of American make. 1968 Observer's Bk. Horses & Ponies (rev. ed.) 10 The percheron, a comparatively new importation, has set his impressive and worthy bulk firmly into the roots of East Anglia. 2000 S. Lieberson Matters of Taste v. 112 Some [names] are literally new... Others are importations from different cultures or subcultures. b. A person who has been brought in, or who has come in, from another country or region to visit, work, or live; an immigrant; spec. a sports player brought in to a team from elsewhere. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > migrant > [noun] > immigrant comelinga1325 incomer1526 income1555 comer1581 adventivea1626 transplanteea1687 immigrantc1787 importation1787 migrant1795 immigrator1836 importee1858 metic1904 wog1966 1787 Minor (Dublin ed.) I. ix. 90 Lady Mask, Lady Lamb, Mrs. Clacker, Miss Grizzle, and several other late importations from the country, made their entry sidewise. 1826 New Monthly Mag. 16 243 This gentleman is an importation from the country which has to boast of the artists Alston, Leslie, and Newton. 1870 ‘C. Hay’ Club & Drawing-room II. xi. 227 Look at that child there—she is a new importation from the country. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 27 Mar. 7/2 Their eleven is entirely representative, and possesses no Scotch or Welsh importations. 1943 Mich. Alumnus 2 Oct. 24/1 The Wildcats possessed a strong team, dotted with stars obtained from their own ranks and from Navy importations. 1987 I. Radforth Bushworkers & Bosses ii. 32 With the arrival of the importations, the lumberjacks..reconsidered in many instances their prospects. 1996 Irish Times (Nexis) 12 Feb. (Sport Suppl.) 2 By no means the quickest or most mobile importation to arrive in this country from Britain. 3. Logic. The inference that if a proposition implies that a second proposition implies a third, then the first and second together imply the third. Cf. exportation n. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [noun] > implication > importation or exportation exportation1903 importation1903 1903 B. Russell Princ. Math. ii. 16 If p implies that q implies r, then pq implies r. This is the principle of importation. 1918 C. I. Lewis Surv. Symbolic Logic iv. 231 This theorem contains Peano's..Principle of Importation. 1957 P. Suppes Introd. to Logic ii. 34 Law of Importation [P→(Q→R)]→[P & Q→R]. 1965 G. E. Hughes & D. G. Londey Elements Formal Logic xv. 113 T 20 is known as the Law of Importation.., since its effect is to ‘import’ the antecedent of the consequent into the antecedent of the whole wff. 1999 Jrnl. Philos. 96 409 In the presence of several standard assumptions about conditionals, the law of importation is inconsistent with the view that (1) and (2) are both true and (3) is false. Compounds General attributive (in sense 1), as importation duty, importation tariff, importation trade, etc. ΚΠ 1721 L. Baden Proposal Paying Debts Nation 5 It would then..increase the Exportation and Importation Duties. 1750 T. Short Disc. Tea v. 25 The former standing Subsidy or Custom of 13 l. 18 s. 7 d. ½ of Importation Duty on every 100 l. worth of Tea. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. v. 120 The importance of the inland trade must be to that of the importation trade as five hundred and seventy to one. 1808 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 604 If I could lay an embargo, or pass a new importation law against corruption and foreign influence. 1848 Daily Sentinel & Gaz. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 15 Sept. Purchased of the largest importation Houses in the city of New York. 1877 G. W. Greene Short Hist. Rhode Island xvii. 135 The Assembly upon petition remitted to them the importation tax. 1915 Northwestern Miller 3 Nov. 319/4 Germany granted very liberal terms in her importation tariffs for this article coming from Russia. 1947 Billboard 22 Nov. 85/2 The regulation removes free-play games from the importation ban of gaming devices. 2011 J. Roberts & E. Wright Amer. Desperado 433 Sometimes I also work in the importation business. Derivatives imporˈtational adj. of or relating to importation (chiefly in sense 1). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [adjective] > terms relating to implication implicative1602 implicational1881 importational1922 co-implicative1939 1922 C. L. Meisinger in Monthly Weather Rev. (U.S.) Suppl. No. 21. 59/2 This disturbance is nearly circular, its importational power is most perfectly developed, and low temperature is found intruding from the west. 1935 Mind 44 154 Importational logograms (analogous to definitions) are introduced by fiat. 2000 Guardian 22 Jan. (Saturday section) 2/7 The England coach, Kevin Keegan, this week declared his dismay at the implications of this importational tendency for the future of English football. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1558
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