export Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country
    exportation.
  2. verb sell or transfer abroad
    • we export less than we import and have a negative trade balance
  3. verb transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs
  4. verb cause to spread in another part of the world
    • The Russians exported Marxism to Africa

WordNet

Ex*port" transitive verb
Etymology
L. exportare, exportatum; ex out+portare to carry : cf. F. exporter. See Port demeanor.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Exported; present participle & verbal noun Exporting
Definitions
  1. To carry away; to remove. Obs.
    [They] export honor from a man, and make him a return in envy. Bacon.
  2. To carry or send abroad, or out of a country, especially to foreign countries, as merchandise or commodities in the way of commerce; -- the opposite of import; as, to export grain, cotton, cattle, goods, etc.
Ex"port noun
Definitions
  1. The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco.
  2. That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; -- used chiefly in the plural, exports.
    The ordinary course of exchange . . . between two places must likewise be an indication of the ordinary course of their exports and imports. A. Smith.

Webster 1913