reimport
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Etymology edit
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Noun edit
reimport (plural reimports)
- The act or practice of importing again, or back to a place of origin; reimportation.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 266:
- It was these texts, translated yet again into Latin, which were the source of the reimport of swathes of lost Classical knowledge into Latin Europe in later centuries.
- A product which has been reimported.
- The low price of reimports has placed competitive pressure on local producers.
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Verb edit
reimport (third-person singular simple present reimports, present participle reimporting, simple past and past participle reimported)
- To import again.
- We reimported the data in a different format.
- To import goods which have previously been exported, particularly pharmaceutical products, back into the country of origin.
- Reimported drugs may not be as safe as domestic products.