Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To bring back into a country (goods made from its exported raw materials).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bring back.
- To import again; carry back to the country of exportation.
- noun Same as
reimportation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or practice of
importing again, or back to a place of origin;reimportation . - noun A product which has been reimported.
- verb To
import again. - verb To import goods which have previously been
exported , particularlypharmaceutical products, back into the country of origin.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It sounds silly to "reimport" drugs that are marketed in the United States, but even with the added transaction costs, doing so is cheaper than buying them here.
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Near the top of the agenda: an amendment from Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan that would have allowed U.S. pharmacies and drug wholesalers to "reimport" drugs from foreign countries.
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Near the top of the agenda: an amendment from Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan that would have allowed U.S. pharmacies and drug wholesalers to "reimport" drugs from foreign countries.
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The people with high willingness to pay just buy the drugs on the open market, whereas the people with low willingness to pay reimport.
Drug Price Discrimination?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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We could, for example, allow Americans to reimport drugs from Canada.
Drew Westen: Why President Obama's 'Taurus Tax' Is the Wrong Medicine
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This is convenient for a relatively small list of images; if you had 50,000 instead of 2000 you might choose to store just the file name and reimport the image when needed.
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The amendment to allow consumers to reimport drugs from other approved countries fell short of the 60 votes needed to pass.
Health-care reform: Drug imports finally get a vote after “furious” lobbying campaign
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During the campaign, and I played this sound earlier today, candidate Obama was passionate, saying we need to renegotiate so that we can to reimport drugs from Canada if they're cheaper.
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The amendment to allow consumers to reimport drugs from other approved countries fell short of the 60 votes needed to pass.
Health-care reform: Drug imports finally get a vote after “furious” lobbying campaign
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Regular readers will recall that the database for this site crashed bigtime in the first week of September 2006, and while no posts were lost, I chose to restart the database at square one rather than reimport everything into what appeared to be a fairly rickety structure.
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