0 the act of introducing new goods, customs, or ideas into a country from another country; something that is introduced in this way:
He opposed efforts to allow the importation of prescription drugs from other countries.
He is believed to have organized massive importations of drugs before his arrest.
Convert the scanned document into text for importation into other software programs.
We developed a compatible data table for importation into statistical and spreadsheet programs.
1 the process or business of bringing goods into a country from another country:
The virus may have spread to North America through the importation of an infected mosquito.
Scots and modern English evolved in parallel from Old English, with importations from many other languages.
The less dust you leave in your LPs' grooves, the less noise you'll have to clean up after importation to your computer.
Such a view leads to the criticism that the distribution structure acts as a non-tariff barrier against the importation of foreign products.
These are costly inputs, to which importation tariffs and other duties must be added.
This reduced the already limited capabilities of local law enforcement institutions, facilitating the importation of drugs.
This transformation involved the incremental importation of rational or mechanistic forms of understanding, entailing various kinds of scientific explanation.
At this point the experimental evidence for the importance of solvent extrusion or importation is indirect.
