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  • noun Plural form of import.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of import.

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Examples

  • Enormous imports is the brief answer-our traditional imports from the U.S. and Britain, plus a growing torrent of imports from Germany, Italy, and Japan.

    Rocks on the Road Ahead 1961

  • An assembly of notables was, as the term imports, a body consisting, not of representatives of the three orders, regularly summoned under the forms observed in the holding of the States General, but of the most prominent men of the kingdom, arbitrarily selected and invited by the crown to act as its advisers on some extraordinary emergency.

    The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

  • In the original prospectus, issued under his sanction, we find "The object of the Society is strictly limited to what its title imports, namely, the imparting useful information to all classes of the community, particularly to such as are unable to avail themselves of experienced teachers, or may prefer learning by themselves."

    The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 17, No. 496, June 27, 1831 Various

  • Excepting, indeed, the running commentary which it contains on a number of extracts from Pausanias and Strabo, it is, as the title imports, a mere itinerary of Greece, or rather of Argolis only, in its present circumstances.

    Life of Lord Byron Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 1854

  • The phratry (phratria) is a brotherhood, as the term imports, and a natural growth from the organization into gentes.

    Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Lewis H. Morgan 1849

  • It covers less than thirty pages folio, and is chiefly occupied, as the title imports, with the military events of the conquest by the duke of Alva.

    The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 William Hickling Prescott 1827

  • Excepting, indeed, the running commentary which it contains on a number of extracts from Pausanias and Strabo, it is, as the title imports, a mere itinerary of Greece, or rather of Argolis only, in its present circumstances.

    Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815

  • Pausanias and Strabo, it is, as the title imports, a mere itinerary of

    The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • The following performance, as the title imports, was originally composed in the Welch language.

    Imogen A Pastoral Romance William Godwin 1796

  • This book is, as its title imports, a plantation sketch dealing with that sort of life in Virginia just after the Civil War.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 Various

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