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What does "import" mean?

Import: To carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to signify. Every petition . . . doth . . . always import a multitude of speakers together. Hooker.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To be of importance or consequence to; to have a bearing on; to concern. I have a motion much imports your good. Shak. If I endure it, what imports it you Dryden.
  2. 3.To signify; to purport; to be of moment. "For that . . . importeth to the work." Bacon.
  3. 4.Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; -- generally in the plural, opposed to exports. I take the imports from, and not the exports to, these conquests, as the measure of these advantages which we derived from them. Burke.
  4. 5.That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like.
  5. 6.Importance; weight; consequence. Most serious design, and the great import. Shak.

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