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exportation

 
Dictionary: ex·por·ta·tion   (ĕk'spôr-tā'shən, -spōr-) pronunciation

n.
  1. The act of exporting.
  2. Something exported; an export.

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An operator is exported from a place within a sentence if it is repositioned so that the whole of the rest of the sentence is within its scope. This may or may not give an equivalent sentence. ‘When they come, they frequently dine’ is equivalent to ‘frequently, when they come they dine’, in which ‘frequently’ has been exported. But ‘when they dine, they are amazingly sick’ is not equivalent to ‘amazingly, when they dine they are sick’. Illicit exportation can easily give rise to fallacies. See also scope.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country
  Synonym: export

Meaning #2: the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country
  Synonym: exporting


 
 
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