export

1. 1.

   commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country

   Synonymsexportation

   Antonymsimport

   Broadercommodity

Other forms of export

plural

exports·

past tense

exported·

present participle

exporting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about export

What does export mean?

export means "sell or transfer abroad". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in export?

export has 2 syllables: ex-port. The stress falls on "ex". In IPA it is /ˈɛkspɔɹt/.

What is another word for export?

Close synonyms include exportation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of export?

The recorded antonyms are import, import, import.

Is export a common word?

export is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.