importation

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

importation (countable and uncountable, plural importations)

1. The act or an instance of importing.
2. The act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country.
3. That which is imported; commodities or wares introduced into a country from abroad.
4. (linguistics) The use of a term which consists of formally foreign elements.

   Hypernym: loan

   Coordinate term: substitution

   Hyponyms: foreign word; loanword; hybrid; pseudo-loanword, pseudo-loan

5. (logic) The logical law $(P\to (Q\to R))\Rightarrow ((P\land Q)\to R)$.

Translations

A term consisting of formally foreign elements

• Finnish: tuonti (fi)
• German: lexikalische Entlehnung f, lexikalischer Import m
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: lån (sv) n

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

importation f (plural importations)

1. importation

Further reading

• “importation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.