Importation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IMPORTATION in dictionary:

VERB:
• The act of carrying, conveying, or delivering.
• The act or practice of importing, or bringing into a country or state; -- opposed to exportation.
• That which is imported; commodities or wares introduced into a country from abroad.
NOUN:
• the act or practice of importing
• the bringing of goods or services into a country from abroad for sale
• the introduction of an idea from a different place or context
• the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country
• commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country

Words related to IMPORTATION

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Words that contain IMPORTATION

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How to use IMPORTATION in a sentence

• But all further importation of slaves, and the holding in slavery of any not already slaves, were prohibited.
• This caused an importation of poor whites from Ireland and England, and their number has been gradually increasing until the present time.
• Martin proposed to vary Article 7, Section 4, so as to allow a prohibition or tax on the importation of slaves.
• Williamson stated the law of North Carolina on the subject, to wit, that it did not directly prohibit the importation of slaves.
• Not to tax, will be equivalent to a bounty on, the importation of slaves.
• In those States which have restrained or prohibited the importation of slaves, it is only done by legislative acts, which may be repealed.
• The first clause allows the importation of slaves for twenty years.
• The committee will observe the distinction between the two words migration and importation.
• The importation gradually enlarged, and the government, in consequence, augmented the duties upon tea.
• The importation of slaves having declined, the year 1861 shows a white preponderance, since continued and substantially increased.
• When the first Continental Congress agreed not to allow the importation of British goods, it provided for the creation of local committees to enforce the rules.
• The suppression of the Farms of tobacco, and the free importation of our salted provisions, will merit all your attention.
• England ought to have insisted on being on the frontiers, then the importation of arms could have been prevented.
• The parliament likewise passed an act for preventing the exportation of wool, and encouraging the importation thereof from Ireland.
• Measures were also taken to render the importation of British manufactures unnecessary.
• Finally, the proposed duty on the importation of raw cotton was reduced, and the whole affair produced a strong impression of the practical inefficiency of the government.
• By an unfavorable balance of trade, I understand, is meant that state of things in which importation exceeds exportation.
• South Carolina and Georgia desired to have the importation of slaves continued.
• This was resisted by some of the Southern delegates, who feared that the importation of slaves might thereby be prohibited.
• Another question was in regard to the importation of Chinamen into Manila.
• On the other hand, the Colony gains greatly by the regular and deliberate importation of English experts.
• The Southern States had enough dishonest men of their own without any importation.
• Recently I have seen no mention in Southern papers of the importation of cannon or any thing else, except in purposely blind phrase as to time and place.
• The existing law prohibiting the importation of slaves into the United States from foreign countries, is itself an interference with the institution of slavery in the States.
• The exportation has exceeded the importation that sum.
• Jefferson, the importation of slaves was prohibited into Mississippi and Louisiana, in the faint hope that those Territories might finally become free States.
• Not until Brazil abolished slavery in 1888 did the importation wholly cease.
• The importation of Negroes to the mainland of North America was small until the British got the coveted privilege of the Asiento in 1713.

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