What does importer mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. importernoun

    someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country)

Wiktionary

  1. importernoun

    One who, or that which, imports: especially a person or company importing goods into a country.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Importernoun

    One that brings in from abroad.

    Etymology: from import.

    It is impossible to limit the quantity that shall be brought in, especially if the importers of it have so sure a market as the Exchequer. Jonathan Swift.

Wikipedia

  1. importer

    An import is the receiving country in an export from the sending country. Importation and exportation are the defining financial transactions of international trade.In international trade, the importation and exportation of goods are limited by import quotas and mandates from the customs authority. The importing and exporting jurisdictions may impose a tariff (tax) on the goods. In addition, the importation and exportation of goods are subject to trade agreements between the importing and exporting jurisdictions.

ChatGPT

  1. importer

    An importer is a person, organization, or country that buys and brings in goods or services from another country for the purpose of resale, consumption, or use. This activity is typically conducted as part of international trade and the goods or services are often subject to customs or import taxes.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Importernoun

    one who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country or state; -- opposed to exporter

Wikidata

  1. Importer

    An importer is a software application that reads in a data file or metadata information in one format and converts it to another format via special algorithms. An importer often is not an entire program by itself, but an extension to another program, implemented as a plug-in. When implemented in this way, the importer reads the data from the file and converts it into the hosting application's native format. For example, the data file for a 3D model may be written from a modeler, such as 3D Studio Max. A game developer may then want to use that model in their game's editor. An importer, part of the editor, may read in the 3D Studio Max model and convert it to the game's native format so it can be used in game levels. Importers are important tools in the video game industry. A plug-in or application that does the converse of an importer is called an exporter.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. importer

    Being exactly the reverse of export, exportation, and exporter, refer to those terms, and take the opposite meaning. To import is therefore to bring commodities into a country for the purpose of traffic.

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  1. reimport

  2. promerit

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of importer in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of importer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of importer in a Sentence

  1. John Woodham:

    I think we will probably be an importer of coal as crazy as that sounds, probably not steam coal, probably we'll step into the steam coal market to top up some of our inventories because our inventories are very low on steam coal, but definitely on the anthracite low vol markets DTEK is going to be a net importer of coal for the foreseeable future.

  2. Robert Fee:

    If you'll recall, not long ago people were talking about peak oil and gas and the U S was going to become a major importer of natural gas, you've heard estimates of a hundred years of natural gas... that number keeps getting higher and higher.

  3. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak:

    If we cut, the importer countries will increase their production and this will mean a loss of our niche market.

  4. Salamuddin Daeng:

    This is just oriented to replace the importer, without looking at the entire system.

  5. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak:

    This should not affect the market, this country (the United States) is an importer, it needs to buy oil on the market itself.

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