Definition for Importation:

• commodities ( goods or services) bought from a foreign country

Synonyms for Importation:

• n.

  •
  • reception,
  • transportation,
  • admission,
  • adoption,
  • borrowing,
  • bringing in,
  • purchase abroad,
  • shipping in,
  • acceptance.
  •act (noun)
  • importation,
  • importing.
  •admittance (noun)
  • entree.
  •entrance (noun)
  • enlistment,
  • commencement,
  • arrival,
  • outset,
  • adit,
  • baptism,
  • access,
  • accession,
  • passage,
  • debut,
  • ingoing,
  • incoming,
  • incomings,
  • progress,
  • initiation,
  • start,
  • immigration,
  • penetration,
  • beginning,
  • enrollment,
  • importations,
  • entry,
  • ingress,
  • Ingression,
  • trespass,
  • invasion,
  • admittance,
  • appearance,
  • inception,
  • approach,
  • import.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • smuggling,
  • transmission.

Paraphrases for Importation:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    importing.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    importing.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    goods.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    import, imports, imported, admission, admissions.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    import, imported, introduction, exportation, entrance, admission, smuggling, admittance.
  • Verb, base form
    import.

Antonyms for Importation:

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    prohibition, rejection.

• n.

  • entrance
    end, completion, departure, leave, disappearance, exit, ending, refusal, stop, egress, leaving, conclusion, repudiation, retreat, termination, finish.
  • entree
    Blackballing.

• v. t.

  • Other antonyms:
    export, exportation.

Importation Sentence Examples:

• Our first war with China was in 1840, and was fought because the Chinese Government endeavoured to stop the importation of opium.

• The same gentleman had said, it was impossible to abolish the trade; but where was the impossibility of forbidding the further importation of slaves into our own colonies?

Hypernym for Importation:

• n.

  • act
    smuggling.

Hyponym for Importation:

• n.

  • act
    commercialism, mercantilism, commerce.