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VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

Pronunciation /ɪkˈspɔːt/ /ɛkˈspɔːt/ /

ˈɛkspɔːt/
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1 Send (goods or services) to another country an update
for sale.
‘nearly all the bananas produced were
exported to Britain’

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1.1 Spread or introduce (ideas and beliefs) to

another country.
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‘the Greeks exported Hellenic culture is...
around the Mediterranean basin’

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1.2 Computing Transfer (data) in a format

that can be used by other programs.
‘the information can be exported to a
database’
What is the ‘-ling’ in darling?
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NOUN

Pronunciation /ˈɛkspɔːt/

(usually exports)
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1 A product or service sold abroad.
crowdsourcing: recording
‘wool and mohair were the principal exports’

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Monkeys and Apes
1.1 (exports) Sales of goods or services
abroad, or the revenue from such sales. Which of the following is a type of
monkey or ape?
‘meat exports’

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1.2 [mass noun] The selling and sending out of pink monkey
goods or services to other countries.
‘the export of Western technology’ NEXT 0/10

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1.3 [as modi er] Of a high standard suitable

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for export.
‘export ales’ Most popular in the world

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1. extramundane

2. southerly
Origin
Late 15th century (in the sense ‘take away’): from
3. nonsensity
Latin exportare, from ex- ‘out’ + portare ‘carry’.
Current senses date from the 17th century. 4. amitriptyline

5. jeton
Pronunciation
export VERB /ɪkˈspɔːt/
export NOUN /ˈɛkspɔːt/
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