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Exporting

noun

The commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country. Synonym: exportation.

Export

verb

(past & past part. exported; pres. part. exporting)

Sell or transfer abroad.

Transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs.

Cause to spread in another part of the world.

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"Exporting" Quotes from Famous Books

... State, May 1, 1806. "Sir:—In consequence of a representation from the director of the Bank of the United States, that considerable purchases have been made of dollars coined at the mint for the purpose of exporting them, and as it is probable further purchases and exportations will be made, the President directs that all the silver to be coined at the mint shall be of small denominations, so that the value of the largest pieces shall ...

— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

... exist. When calico was woven in the cottages of the workmen, there existed a class of persons who travelled about and purchased the pieces so made, in large numbers, for the purpose of selling them to the exporting merchant. But the middlemen were obliged to examine every piece, in order to know that it was perfect, and of full measure. The greater number of the workmen, it is true, might be depended upon, but the fraud of a few would render this examination ...

— On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures • Charles Babbage

... freight rates meant a correspondingly higher commission for them on the charter, held off until the Narcissus had almost finished discharging at Hoboken before they closed with a fine old New York importing and exporting house for a cargo of soft coal from Norfolk, Virginia, to Manila, or Batavia. The charterers were undecided which of these two cities would be the port of discharge, and stipulated that the vessel was ...

— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne

... and the ultimate collapse of the age-old apprenticeship system of training, where the master workman with a few apprentices in his shop prepared goods for sale. They also meant the ultimate transformation of England from an agricultural into a great manufacturing and exporting nation, whose manufactured products would be sold in ...

— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

... buy and bring from those who have a surplus. The export of grain and other products from India continues regularly in the lean as well as the fat years, but the country is so large, the distances so great, the facilities for transportation so inadequate, that one province may be exporting food to Europe because it has to spare, while another province may be receiving ships loaded with charity from America because its crops have failed ...

— Modern India • William Eleroy Curtis

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