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export verb

• send (goods or services) to another country for sale.
• "nearly all the bananas produced were exported to Britain"
Similar: sell overseas/abroad, market overseas/abroad, send overseas/abroad, trade internationally, transport,
Opposite: import,

export noun

• a product or service sold abroad.
• "wool and mohair were the principal exports"
Origin: late 15th century (in the sense ‘take away’): from Latin exportare, from ex- ‘out’ + portare ‘carry’. Current senses date from the 17th century.


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