importation

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English import

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English importation

From import + -ation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

importation (countable and uncountable, plural importations)

1. The act or an instance of importing.
   • 1989 May, Priit J. Vesilind, “The Baltic: Arena of Power”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 630:

     "A subway would require the importation of workers from Russia," says a young man from Rīga.

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

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

   Coordinate term: substitution

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

Derived terms

• nonimportation
• overimportation
• reimportation

Translations

the act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country

• Catalan: importació (ca) f
• French: importation (fr) f
• Italian: importazione (it) f
• Portuguese: importação (pt) f
• Spanish: importación (es) f
• Ukrainian: вве́зення (uk) n (vvézennja), ввіз (uk) m (vviz), і́мпорт (uk) m (ímport), імпортува́ння n (importuvánnja)

that which is imported — see import

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

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/

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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