importation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

importation (countable and uncountable, plural importations)

1. The act or an instance of importing.
2. The act or an instance of carrying or conveying, especially into some system, place, area or country.
3. That which is imported; commodities or wares introduced into a country from abroad.
4. (linguistics) The use of a term which consists of formally foreign elements.

   Hypernym: loan

   Coordinate term: substitution

   Hyponyms: foreign word; loanword; hybrid; pseudo-loanword, pseudo-loan

5. (logic) The logical law ${\displaystyle (P\to (Q\to R))\Rightarrow ((P\land Q)\to R)}$.

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importation f (plural importations)

1. importation

• “importation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.