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importer

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ɪmˈpɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/
  • rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
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  • CMU ARPABET: IH2 M P AO1 R T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

One who, or that which, imports: especially a person or company importing goods into a country.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • India is the world's biggest importer of gold.
  • The data importer has crashed. Did we receive a corrupted file?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: businessperson, bourgeois

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English import Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English importer From import + -er.

Across languages

Translations

77 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: importues — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Arabic: مُسْتَوْرِد (mustawrid) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Arabic: مُسْتَوْرِدَة (mustawrida) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Armenian: ներմուծող (nermucoġ) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Azerbaijani: idxalçı — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Belarusian: імпарцёр (imparcjór) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Bulgarian: вноси́тел (vnosítel) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Catalan: importador — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Catalan: importadora — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Chinese Cantonese: 進口商 /进口商 (zeon3 hau2 soeng1) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Chinese Mandarin: 進口商 /进口商 (jìnkǒu shāng) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Czech: dovozce — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Czech: importér — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Danish: importør — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Dutch: importeur — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Estonian: importija — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Finnish: maahantuoja — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • French: importateur — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • French: importatrice — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Georgian: იმპორტიორი (imṗorṭiori) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • German: Importeur — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Greek: εισαγωγέας (eisagogéas) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Hindi: आयातक (āyātak) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Hindi: आयातकर्ता (āyātkartā) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Hindi: इम्पॉर्टर (impŏrṭar) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Hungarian: importőr — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Icelandic: innflytjandi — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Indonesian: importir — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Irish: allmhaireoir — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Irish: iompórtálaí — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Italian: importatore — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Italian: importatrice — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Japanese: 輸入業者 (yunyū gyōsha) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Kazakh: импорттаушы (importtauşy) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Khmer: អាហារិន (ʼaahaarɨn) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Khmer: ឈ្មួញនាំចូល (chmuəñ nŏəm coul) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Korean: 수입업자 (su'ibeopja) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Korean: 수입사 (su'ipsa) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Kyrgyz: импортёр (importyor) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Lao: ຜູ້ນໍາເຂົ້າ (phū nam khao) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Latvian: importētājs — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Lithuanian: importuotojas — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Macedonian: увозник (uvoznik) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Manx: kionneyder stiagh — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Mongolian: импортлогч (importlogč) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Norwegian Bokmål: importør — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: importør — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Persian: وارِدکُنَندِه (vâredkonande) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Polish: importer — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Portuguese: importador — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Portuguese: importadora — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Romanian: importator — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Russian: импортёр (importjór) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Serbo-Croatian: у́вознӣк — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Serbo-Croatian: úvoznīk — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Slovak: dovozca — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Slovak: importér — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Slovene: uvoznik — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Spanish: importador — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Spanish: importadora — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Swedish: importör — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Tagalog: tagaangkat — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Tajik: импортёр (importyor) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Tajik: воридкунанда (voridkunanda) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Tatar: импортчы (importçı) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Thai: ผู้นําเข้า (pûu-nam-kâo) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Turkish: ithalatçı — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Turkmen: importçy — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Ukrainian: імпорте́р (importér) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Urdu: اِمْپوْرٹَر (imporṭar) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Uyghur: ئىمپورتچى (importchi) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Uyghur: ئىمپورتېر (importër) — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Uzbek: importyor — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Uzbek: importchi — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Vietnamese: người nhập khẩu — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Vietnamese: cơ quan nhập khẩu — a person or company who imports goods into a country
  • Vietnamese: nước nhập khẩu — a person or company who imports goods into a country
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