export

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: ex=port

CIDE DICTIONARY

export, v. t. [L. exportare, exportatum; ex out+portare to carry : cf. F. exporter. See Port demeanor.].

•  To carry away; to remove.  [1913 Webster]

  "[They] export honor from a man, and make him a return in envy."  [1913 Webster]
•  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]

export, n. 

•  The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; -- used chiefly in the plural, exports.  [1913 Webster]

  "The ordinary course of exchange . . . between two places must likewise be an indication of the ordinary course of their exports and imports."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

export, v. & n.
--v.tr. send out (goods or services) esp. for sale in another country.
--n.
1 the process of exporting.
2 a an exported article or service. b (in pl.) an amount exported (exports exceeded {pound}50m.).
3 (attrib.) suitable for export, esp. of better quality.

Idiom

export reject an article sold in its country of manufacture, as being below the standard for export.

Derivative

exportable adj. exportability n. exportation n. exporter n.

Etymology

L exportare (as EX-(1), portare carry)

THESAURUS

export

air-express, airfreight, airmail, assign, carry over, communicate, communication, conduction, consign, contagion, convection, deliver, delivery, deport, deportation, diapedesis, diffuse, diffusion, dispatch, disseminate, dissemination, drop a letter, embark, expedite, expel, exportation, exporting, express, expulsion, extradite, extradition, forward, freight, hand forward, hand on, hand over, impart, import, importation, interchange, mail, make over, metastasis, metastasize, metathesis, metathesize, metempsychosis, migration, mutual transfer, osmosis, pass, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, passage, passing over, perfuse, perfusion, post, relay, remit, send, send abroad, send away, send forth, send off, ship, spread, spreading, switch, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transfer property, transference, transfuse, transfusion, transit, transition, translate, translation, translocate, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmit, transmittal, transmittance, transplace, transplacement, transplant, transplantation, transposal, transpose, transposition, travel, turn over

ROGET THESAURUS

export

Transference

VB transfer, transmit, transport, transplace, transplant, translocate, convey, carry, bear, fetch and carry, carry over, ferry over, hand pass, forward, shift, conduct, convoy, bring, fetch, reach, tote, port, import, export, send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver, ship, embark, waft, shunt, transpose, displace, throw, drag, mail, post, shovel, ladle, decant, draft off, transfuse, infuse, siphon.

Egress

N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.

Extraction

N extraction, extracting, removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution, evulsion, avulsion, wrench, expression, squeezing, extirpation, extermination, ejection, export, extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers, extracted.