of import Meaning of "of import"

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Definition(s):

  • (adj) of great significance or value

Usage(s):

  1. President Fargo stubbornly resisted any more truck with tourists, even though American Express had a chain of import offices in Europe.
  2. The balance of import and export will be very, very skewed.
  3. The other film was Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky , in which nothing of import happens to a delightful, uncynical London schoolteacher named Poppy, fabulously played by Sally Hawkins.
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