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importer

noun
/ɪmˈpɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From import + -er.

  1. derived from importō — “bring in from abroad, import”
  2. derived from emporter
  3. inherited from importen
  4. suffixed as importer — “import + er”

Definitions

  1. One who, or that which, imports

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

    • India is the world's biggest importer of gold.
    • The data importer has crashed. Did we receive a corrupted file?
    • Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for importer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA