importable
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French importable.
Adjective[edit]
importable (comparative more importable, superlative most importable)
- (obsolete) Insupportable, unbearable.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- So both attonce him charge on either side, / With hideous strokes, and importable powre […]
Etymology 2[edit]
Adjective[edit]
importable (comparative more importable, superlative most importable)
- Capable of being imported.
Translations[edit]
able to be imported
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Noun[edit]
importable (plural importables)
- Something that can be imported.
- 2015 July, Peter Lloyd, Donald MacLaren, “Assistance to Australian Agriculture from Federation to World War II”, in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (via SSRN)[1]:
- Then the nominal rates of assistance from these measures are calculated for 20 agricultural products, 14 of which are classified as exportables and 6 as importables.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Adjective[edit]
importable (plural importables)
Further reading[edit]
- “importable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.