imported
adjective
[ ɪmˈpɔːtɪd ]
• (of goods or services) brought into a country from abroad for sale.
• "imported cigarettes"
import
verb
• bring (goods or services) into a country from abroad for sale.
• "supermarkets may no longer import cheap jeans from Bulgaria"
Similar:
buy from abroad,
bring from abroad,
bring in,
buy in,
ship in,
source from abroad,
• indicate or signify.
• "having thus seen, what is imported in a Man's trusting his Heart"
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘signify’): from Latin importare ‘bring in’ (in medieval Latin ‘imply, mean, be of consequence’), from in- ‘in’ + portare ‘carry’.
