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importee
  • n  an imported person brought from a foreign country
    they are descendants of indentured importees
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importer
  • n  someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country)
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importing
  • n  the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country
  • v  bring in from abroad
  • v  transfer (electronic data) into a database or document
  • v  indicate or signify
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importunity
  • n  insistent solicitation and entreaty
    his importunity left me no alternative but to agree
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imposition
  • n  the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
  • n  an uncalled-for burden
    he listened but resented the imposition
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impossibility
  • n  incapability of existing or occurring
  • n  an alternative that is not available
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impost
  • n  money collected under a tariff
  • n  the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs
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impotence
  • n  the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble
  • n  an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate
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impotency
  • n  the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble
  • n  an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate
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impounding
  • n  placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
  • v  take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
  • v  place or shut up in a pound
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