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/ɛkspɔːtˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country
- commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country
How To Use exportation In A Sentence
- That for exportation is usually obtained by pressing the copperah in a simple press turned by bullocks. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
- He calls the episode ‘perhaps the most tragic example of the exportation of conflict.’
- There are a few exaggerations, but none to be alarmed at, as they are frankly made for exportation. Times, Sunday Times
- Mobs in Boston prevented the exportation of grain by unrigging the ship and dismantling its rudder.
- An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America; to increase the deposit on bohea tea to be sold at the East India Company's sales; and to empower the commissioners of the treasury to grant licences to the East India Company to export tea duty-free. Bob Cesca: The Weird Contradictions of the Tea Bag Revolution
- With nine precious muscoid corpses, more or less ornamented with a lovely fur trimming of Saprolegnia, I shall return to London to-morrow, and shall be ready in a short time, I hope, to furnish Salmon Disease wholesale, retail, or for exportation. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
- I note that the bill itself is well over a year overdue, since the date of the Stockholm agreement, yet nowhere in the bill does it actually state what the exportation of those certain goods are.
- III. therefore, chap. 37. the exportation of gum senega from his majestys dominions in Africa was confined to Great Britain, and was subjected to all the same restrictions, regulations, forfeitures, and penalties, as that of the enumerated commodities of the British colonies in America and the West Indies. VIII. Book IV. Conclusion of the Mercantile System
- He was charged with attempted exportation of illegal drugs.
- Whenever the domestic butter price drops below $1.30, it provides an incentive bonus for the exportation of butter products.
