importer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person or company that brings goods or services into a country for sale

   The importer buys olive oil in Greece and distributes it to shops across Canada.

2. 2
   noun

   a software tool or component that reads data from an external format or system

   The photo importer copied the images and converted their metadata.

Formed from import + the agent suffix -er. Import came from Latin importare ("bring in"), combining in- ("into") with portare ("carry"). The computing sense extends the commercial idea of bringing something across a boundary.

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