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noun

export

CEFR B2

commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country

In a sentence

Six example sentences with export, each labelled with its topic.

  • Coffee remains the country's largest export, and a single bad harvest moves the national income more than any policy.

    Economics

  • Traders watch the monthly export figures because a shortfall usually weakens the currency within a day or two.

    Finance

  • The cheese cooperative survives on export sales, shipping nine of every ten wheels to buyers in Japan and Canada.

    Business

  • The minister argued that wheat should stay home rather than leave as an export while bread prices climbed.

    Politics

  • For three centuries wool was England's great export, and the House of Lords still keeps a seat stuffed with it.

    History

  • Films became the country's third-largest export, earning more abroad in some years than its copper mines did.

    Movies

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