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noun

exporting

the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country

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

  • Exporting now accounts for a third of the region's output, and the port has doubled its container capacity twice.

    Economics

  • The family's olive press turned to exporting in the 1990s, and its oil now reaches restaurants four thousand miles away.

    Cooking

  • Exporting forced the workshop to redesign its packaging, since a crate that survived a lorry failed on a container ship.

    Business

  • Exporting exposed the firm to currency swings, and a strong pound wiped out a year of profit on its European orders.

    Finance

  • The minister promised to make exporting easier for small firms, cutting the customs forms from eleven pages to two.

    Politics

  • By 1700 the town lived on exporting wool, and its merchants built the tall houses that still line the harbour.

    History

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