import.

1. The significance or intended meaning of something.

2. To bring goods or other material into a country from elsewhere.

3. To transfer externally stored data into a program or system.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• of great import
• full import

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Only later did she understand the full import of the warning.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, qualification. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: imports.