export

«export» in Mova's school dictionary: To send goods to another country to sell them — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (export, exports, exported, exporting); noun (an export, exports; export)

meaning for a pupil

1) (verb) To send goods to another country to sell them. tree →

2) (noun) Something that is sold to another country. tree →

3) (noun) The business of selling goods abroad. tree →

4) (computing) To save data from one program in a form another program can use. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography lessons: countries export things they grow or make (New Zealand exports lamb and butter; Australia exports iron ore). Opposite: import. In computing: «export as PDF». In maths: trade problems compare exports and imports.

examples

• Brazil exports a lot of coffee. tree →
• Wool is one of the country's main exports. tree →
• The factory exports cars to Europe. tree →
• Export the picture as a JPEG file. tree →
• The farm's apples are grown for export. tree →
• Canada exports maple syrup around the world. tree →
• The country earns money from exports. tree →

note

Stress: verb ex-PORT, noun EX-port. Opposite: import. Countable (exports) for goods; uncountable for the trade. In maths: trade surplus = exports − imports when exports are larger.

In the corpora

• Exports are goods a country sells abroad and imports are goods it buys from abroad.
• Trade is buying and selling between countries; an import is something bought from abroad, and an export is something sold abroad.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «export» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.