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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/export/#m1)

2) (noun) Something that is sold to another country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/export/#m2)

3) (noun) The business of selling goods abroad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/export/#m3)

4) (computing) To save data from one program in a form another program can use. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/export/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/export/#x1)
- Wool is one of the country's main exports. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/export/#x2)
- The factory exports cars to Europe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/export/#x3)
- Export the picture as a JPEG file. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/export/#x4)
- The farm's apples are grown for export. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/export/#x5)
- Canada exports maple syrup around the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/export/#x6)
- The country earns money from exports. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/export/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/19/)
- [Trade is buying and selling between countries; an import is something bought from abroad, and an export is something sold abroad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «export» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/export/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.