"import" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

import verbo

import + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 67
import goods • import drugs • import food • import products • import oil • ...
verbo + import
Kolokacji: 6
begin importing • start importing • stop importing • allow to import • prohibit importing • ...
(1) begin, start, stop
Kolokacji: 3
  • After about 30 years, however, it was decided to start importing manure.
  • Some programs can start importing automatically and record everything on the tape.
  • We stayed in business because we started importing very early on.
  • Before you start importing, it's a good idea to be clear about what you are trying to achieve.
  • He started importing food products as a sideline to his Indian fabric business.
  • In the decade of 1930's-1940's the city based industries started importing technology from the western world for industrial manufacturing.
  • Hopes to start importing said heaters to the country of Australia.
  • To find himself a niche, he started importing gramophones for the local recording industry.
  • Also in the seventeenth century, colonists started importing African laborers.
  • By 1987, Peru, once an exporter, had started importing crude oil.
3. stop importing = import zatrzymania stop importing
(2) allow, prohibit, involve
Kolokacji: 3
import + preposición
Kolokacji: 20
imported from • imported into • imported to • imported for • imported in • ...
import + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 16
imported directly • illegally imported • legally imported • originally imported • mainly imported • ...

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