'Exporting' definitions:
Definition of 'exporting'
(from WordNet)
noun
The commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country [syn: exporting, exportation]
Definition of 'Exporting'
From: GCIDE
- Export \Ex*port"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exported; p. pr. & vb. n. Exporting.] [L. exportare, exportatum; ex out+portare to carry : cf. F. exporter. See Port demeanor.]
- 1. To carry away; to remove. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- [They] export honor from a man, and make him a return in envy. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]