export
- n commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country
- v sell or transfer abroad
we export less than we import and have a negative trade balance - v transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs
- v cause to spread in another part of the world
The Russians exported Marxism to Africa
export credit
- n a credit opened by an importer with a bank in an exporter's country to finance an export operation
exportation
- n commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country
- n the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country
exporting
- n the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country
- v sell or transfer abroad
- v transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs
- v cause to spread in another part of the world
expose
- n the exposure of an impostor or a fraud
he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government - v expose or make accessible to some action or influence
expose the blanket to sunshine - v make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- v to show, make visible or apparent
- v remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
The man exposed himself in the subway - v disclose to view as by removing a cover
- v put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- v expose to light, of photographic film
- v expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
- v abandon by leaving out in the open air
The infant was exposed by the teenage mother
exposition
- n a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic
- n a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
- n an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse
we would have understood the play better if there had been some initial exposition of the background - n (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur