export

1. 1.

   sell or transfer abroad

   “we export less than we import and have a negative trade balance”

   Antonymsimport

   Broadertrade

   Narrowersmuggle

   commerce

2. 2.

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

   Antonymsimport

   Broadertransfer

   computer science

3. 3.

   cause to spread in another part of the world

   “The Russians exported Marxism to Africa”

   Broaderspread

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.