Other forms: exports, exported, exporting
To export is to send goods out to another country. Export cars, export markets, exports rose.
It is the opposite of import, and the balance between the two is the trade balance. The noun is stressed on the first syllable and the verb on the second, which is a pattern English uses for about a hundred word pairs. In computing, to export means to save data in a form another program can read. Note exporter; and that the Latin means simply to carry out.
1verbexportTo send goods out to another country.
“Brazil exports huge amounts of coffee every year.”
2verbsaveTo save data in a form another program can read.
“Export your photos from the app before you delete it.”
export is a sending out.
Latin exportare is ex- plus portare, to carry. Port, portable, transport and import come from the same carrying.
Proto-Indo-European
*per- (fare)
Latin
exportare
English, today
export
From Latin exportare.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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