Definition of "importation" []

• The act or business of importing. (noun)
• The condition or process of being imported. (noun)
• Something imported; an import. (noun)

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• "Stop pretending that a mandate to force 45 million Americans to purchase health insurance from multi billion dollar corporations without price controls or drug re importation is socialism."
• "This reminds me of some Englishman or another I read once who complained that “Scottish” is an awkward, incorrect importation from the Celts, and that there indeed exists a perfectly good English word to describes things or people from Scotland, namely Scotch."
• "Thinking that Clinton's giving NK the go-ahead for nuclear importation is like thinking that Clinton's a communist."