Dictionary Definition

importing n : the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country [syn: importation]

User Contributed Dictionary

importing

Import may refer to:

Importing goods and services; see Import (international trade) and International trade.
Import scene, the subculture that revolves around modifying imported brand cars.
In computing,
- to import is to transform data into the native file format of an application that one is working with.
- the import directive is a controversial preprocessor directive in the Objective C language, also supported unofficially in related languages by the Gnu Compiler Collection.