n.
1.commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country
2.an imported person brought from a foreign country
3.the message that is intended or expressed or signified
4.a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
5.having important effects or influence import v.
1.bring in from abroad
2.indicate or signify
Idiom of the Day
put (someone or something) at (someone's) disposal
to make someone or something available to someone
I put myself at my friend's disposal when he visited me last summer.