reimport
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act or practice of importing again, or back to a place of origin; reimportation.
noun
A product which has been reimported.
verb
To import goods which have previously been exported, particularly pharmaceutical products, back into the country of origin.
Example Sentences
- "It was these texts, translated yet again into Latin, which were the source of the reimport of swathes of lost Classical knowledge into Latin Europe in later centuries."
- "The low price of reimports has placed competitive pressure on local producers."
- "We reimported the data in a different format."
- "Reimported drugs may not be as safe as domestic products."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English import English reimport From re- + import.