1. importation - Noun
2. importation - Verb
The act of carrying, conveying, or delivering.
The act or practice of importing, or bringing into a country or state; -- opposed to exportation.
That which is imported; commodities or wares introduced into a country from abroad.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade. Adam Smith
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Of course, fairies are all imported in North America. We have no native fairies. The Little People do not long survive importation - unless they go to California and grow large and beautiful, but haven't much flavour, like the fruit and the film stars. Robertson Davies
The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S. Larry Craig
I congratulate you, my dear friend, on the law of your state for suspending the importation of slaves, and for the glory you have justly acquired by endeavoring to prevent it forever. This abomination must have an end, and there is a superior bench reserved in heaven for those who hasten it. Thomas Jefferson
If the importation of foreign cattle, for example, were made ever so free, so few could be imported, that the grazing trade of Great Britain could be little affected by it. Live cattle are, perhaps, the only commodity of which the transportation is more expensive by sea than by land. Adam Smith