ex·port
ek-ˈspȯrt 
ˈek-ˌspȯrt
ˈek-ˌspȯrt
exported; exporting; exports
1
: to carry away : remove
2
: to carry or send (something, such as a commodity) to some other place (such as another country)
: to export something abroad
ex·port
ˈek-ˌspȯrt
1
: something exported
specifically
: a commodity conveyed from one country or region to another for purposes of trade
2
: the act of exporting : exportation
the export of wheat
ex·port
ˈek-ˌspȯrt
: of or relating to exportation or exports
export duties
Examples of export in a Sentence
Verb
countries that export oil to the U.S.
Noun
Exports to China have risen this year.
Recent Examples on the Web
Reuters, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2024
Most of the materials that come through the Harrisonville facility end up in the Midwest too — although plant manager Cooper said that some of its cardboard is exported to India, Malaysia and other countries to be repurposed into new cardboard.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2024
China’s factories are now exporting goods at prices that are often far below those of their competitors, helping to power its economy.
—Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2024
Senior Biden administration officials told reporters Wednesday that the Treasury Department will let expire on Thursday a license that allows companies under U.S. jurisdiction to engage with the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA to produce and export oil and gas.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2024
Ukraine's ability to import energy from European allies is also limited because, before the war, Ukraine exported energy to the rest of Europe.
—Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2024
The fraudsters typically export the electronics back to China to resell them, according to Vollenweider.
—Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 10 Apr. 2024
At the time, the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq had demonstrated America’s inability to employ immersive military and political means—in particular, counterinsurgency and nation-building—to export liberal democracy.
—Steven Simon, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2024
Around 2000, many eggshell fragments were illegally exported from Argentina into the commercial market.
—Evan Thomas Saitta, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024
Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 26 Apr. 2024
Biden’s Industrial Agenda: President Biden’s trillion-dollar effort to invigorate American manufacturing and speed a transition to cleaner energy sources is colliding with a surge of cheap exports from China, threatening to wipe out the investment and jobs central to his economic agenda.
—Kate Kelly, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024
And as imports outpace exports, international trade is also thought to have been a drag on the economy’s first-quarter growth.
—Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2024
In the last financial year, India’s goods exports fell 3% and its crude imports, 14%.
—Debasish Roy Chowdhury, TIME, 24 Apr. 2024
But that move could be blocked by Chinese authorities, who have insisted that any such sale would represent a technology export.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 Apr. 2024
In the most glaring example, since the start of the war in Ukraine, China has supplied Russia with semiconductors and other essential technologies that Russia previously imported from the West, undercutting the efficacy of Western export controls.
—Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
Rights groups have long opposed British arms exports to Israel, but such calls have gained ground since an Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers from the aid charity World Central Kitchen on April 1.
—Sylvia Hui, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024
At the war’s outset, world grain prices jumped as Ukraine exports slumped, causing hardship in some of the world’s most impoverished countries.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2024
Verb
But Volvo is eligible for tariff refunds under a law that awards them to firms with U.S. manufacturing operations — such as Volvo’s South Carolina plant — that also export similar products, according to U.S. trade law experts and a source familiar with Volvo’s tariff-avoidance strategy.
—Reuters, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2024
Most of the materials that come through the Harrisonville facility end up in the Midwest too — although plant manager Cooper said that some of its cardboard is exported to India, Malaysia and other countries to be repurposed into new cardboard.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2024
China’s factories are now exporting goods at prices that are often far below those of their competitors, helping to power its economy.
—Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2024
Senior Biden administration officials told reporters Wednesday that the Treasury Department will let expire on Thursday a license that allows companies under U.S. jurisdiction to engage with the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA to produce and export oil and gas.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2024
Ukraine's ability to import energy from European allies is also limited because, before the war, Ukraine exported energy to the rest of Europe.
—Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2024
The fraudsters typically export the electronics back to China to resell them, according to Vollenweider.
—Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 10 Apr. 2024
At the time, the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq had demonstrated America’s inability to employ immersive military and political means—in particular, counterinsurgency and nation-building—to export liberal democracy.
—Steven Simon, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2024
Around 2000, many eggshell fragments were illegally exported from Argentina into the commercial market.
—Evan Thomas Saitta, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024
Noun
China’s breakthrough is prompting the Biden administration to plug loopholes in its export control measures, including leaning on allies like the Netherlands, South Korea, and Japan to more aggressively impose and enforce controls on China, reports the Financial Times.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 26 Apr. 2024
Biden’s Industrial Agenda: President Biden’s trillion-dollar effort to invigorate American manufacturing and speed a transition to cleaner energy sources is colliding with a surge of cheap exports from China, threatening to wipe out the investment and jobs central to his economic agenda.
—Kate Kelly, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024
And as imports outpace exports, international trade is also thought to have been a drag on the economy’s first-quarter growth.
—Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2024
In the last financial year, India’s goods exports fell 3% and its crude imports, 14%.
—Debasish Roy Chowdhury, TIME, 24 Apr. 2024
But that move could be blocked by Chinese authorities, who have insisted that any such sale would represent a technology export.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 Apr. 2024
In the most glaring example, since the start of the war in Ukraine, China has supplied Russia with semiconductors and other essential technologies that Russia previously imported from the West, undercutting the efficacy of Western export controls.
—Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
Rights groups have long opposed British arms exports to Israel, but such calls have gained ground since an Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers from the aid charity World Central Kitchen on April 1.
—Sylvia Hui, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024
At the war’s outset, world grain prices jumped as Ukraine exports slumped, causing hardship in some of the world’s most impoverished countries.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2024
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export
1 of 2 verb
ex·port
ek-ˈspō(ə)rt
-ˈspȯ(ə)rt
-ˈspȯ(ə)rt
ˈek-ˌspō(ə)rt,
ˈek-ˌspȯ(ə)rt
: to carry or send abroad especially for sale in another country
exportation
noun
ˌek-ˌspōr-ˈtā-shən
-ˌspȯr-
-spər-
exporter
noun
ek-ˈspōrt-ər
-ˈspōrt-
ˈek-ˌ
export
2 of 2 noun
ex·port
ˈek-ˌspō(ə)rt
-ˌspȯ(ə)rt
1
: something that is exported
2
: an act of exporting
export
adjective
Legal Definition
export
transitive verb
ex·port
ek-ˈspōrt, ˈek-ˌspōrt
: to carry or send (as a commodity) to some other place (as another country)
: to send something abroad
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