Import /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Imported; p. pr. & vb. n. Importing

1. To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed to export. We import teas from China, coffee from Brazil, etc.
2. To carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to signify.

   Every petition . . . doth . . . always import a multitude of speakers together.

3. To be of importance or consequence to; to have a bearing on; to concern.

   I have a motion much imports your good.

   If I endure it, what imports it you?

1. To signify; to purport; to be of moment.

1. Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; -- generally in the plural, opposed to exports.

   I take the imports from, and not the exports to, these conquests, as the measure of these advantages which we derived from them.

2. That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like.
3. Importance; weight; consequence.

   Most serious design, and the great import.