Noun: exporting ek'spor-ting
- The commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country
"The country's economy relied heavily on exporting agricultural products";
- exportation
- Sell or transfer abroad
"we export less than we import and have a negative trade balance"
- (computing) transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs
"Please export the report as a PDF file"
- Cause to spread in another part of the world
"The Russians exported Marxism to Africa"
Type of: commerce, commercialism, distribute, mercantilism, merchandise, merchandize, spread, trade, transfer
Antonym: import
Encyclopedia: Exporting
Export, West Virginia