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		Definition of importation in English: importationnoun ɪmpɔːˈteɪʃ(ə)n mass noun1The bringing of goods or services into a country from abroad for sale.  manufacturers fought to restrict the importation of cheap foreign goods  the government takes a tough stance on illegal drug importation  Example sentencesExamples -  The Federal Noxious Weed Law (1974) controls the importation of weed species into the United States.
 -  The effect of the rule was "to prevent the importation of those supplies which were indispensable for an armed resistance to Great Britain."
 -  The importation of foreign films was strongly curtailed.
 -  The figures of slave importations on the eve of the American Civil War bear this out - an expansion of the trade was the only way to procure more slaves.
 -  The European Commission used the protocol to ban importation of U.S. biotech crops.
 -  She is working hard to make prescription drugs more affordable and importation from Canada legal.
 -  Local officials reportedly profited handsomely from the illegal importation of used cars.
 -  Congress has determined the value of imported goods to be their customs' value upon importation.
 -  What the regulations do is prohibit the importation of guns.
 -  Commercial loans for the importation of equipment are allowed up to 100 per cent of the amount invested.
 
 2The introduction of an idea from a different place or context.  his avid importation of ideas from European and Asian thinkers  Example sentencesExamples -  His madrigals were probably the first to be known to English composers before the importation of madrigals from Italy was customary.
 -  The author has a good deal to say about Emerson's importation of Asian literature into his own poems and the subsequent congeniality of Buddhism for other writers in the American canon.
 -  One of the colonists ' importations was viticulture.
 -  Jumping and weight throwing he regarded as traditional Irish events; racing and cycling were dismissed as English importations.
 -  It was not the attempted importation of the Anglo-American model that was to blame for Asia's startling economic collapse in 1998.
 -  What we have here is the perfect illustration of just what can happen to cultural importations once they make their way into the Japanese cultural mainstream.
 -  Art on Russian soil was essentially an importation of ecclesiastical models, chiefly icons, derived from Byzantine art.
 -  The cult of St Zita, a household servant saint, is a late medieval importation from Lucca.
 -  He is referring to the internationalisation of English fiction that took place in the 1980s, but there was also importation from a native English tradition.
 -  Globalisation, he admits, does mean 'the importation of Western culture' into poor countries.
 
    Definition of importation in US English: importationnounˌimpôrˈtāSHən 1The bringing of goods or services into a country from abroad for sale.  manufacturers fought to restrict the importation of cheap foreign goods  the government takes a tough stance on illegal drug importation  Example sentencesExamples -  The European Commission used the protocol to ban importation of U.S. biotech crops.
 -  What the regulations do is prohibit the importation of guns.
 -  The figures of slave importations on the eve of the American Civil War bear this out - an expansion of the trade was the only way to procure more slaves.
 -  The effect of the rule was "to prevent the importation of those supplies which were indispensable for an armed resistance to Great Britain."
 -  Commercial loans for the importation of equipment are allowed up to 100 per cent of the amount invested.
 -  The importation of foreign films was strongly curtailed.
 -  She is working hard to make prescription drugs more affordable and importation from Canada legal.
 -  Local officials reportedly profited handsomely from the illegal importation of used cars.
 -  Congress has determined the value of imported goods to be their customs' value upon importation.
 -  The Federal Noxious Weed Law (1974) controls the importation of weed species into the United States.
 
 2The introduction of an idea from a different place or context.  his avid importation of ideas from European and Asian thinkers  Example sentencesExamples -  Jumping and weight throwing he regarded as traditional Irish events; racing and cycling were dismissed as English importations.
 -  Art on Russian soil was essentially an importation of ecclesiastical models, chiefly icons, derived from Byzantine art.
 -  What we have here is the perfect illustration of just what can happen to cultural importations once they make their way into the Japanese cultural mainstream.
 -  The author has a good deal to say about Emerson's importation of Asian literature into his own poems and the subsequent congeniality of Buddhism for other writers in the American canon.
 -  One of the colonists ' importations was viticulture.
 -  It was not the attempted importation of the Anglo-American model that was to blame for Asia's startling economic collapse in 1998.
 -  The cult of St Zita, a household servant saint, is a late medieval importation from Lucca.
 -  Globalisation, he admits, does mean 'the importation of Western culture' into poor countries.
 -  His madrigals were probably the first to be known to English composers before the importation of madrigals from Italy was customary.
 -  He is referring to the internationalisation of English fiction that took place in the 1980s, but there was also importation from a native English tradition.
 
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