reimport

re- +‎ import.

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

reimport (plural reimports)

1. The act or practice of importing again, or back to a place of origin; reimportation.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 266:

     It was these texts, translated yet again into Latin, which were the source of the reimport of swathes of lost Classical knowledge into Latin Europe in later centuries.

2. A product which has been reimported.

   The low price of reimports has placed competitive pressure on local producers.

• reimportation

reimport (third-person singular simple present reimports, present participle reimporting, simple past and past participle reimported)

1. To import again.

   We reimported the data in a different format.

2. To import goods which have previously been exported, particularly pharmaceutical products, back into the country of origin.

   Reimported drugs may not be as safe as domestic products.

• reimportation
• reimporter

• importer, promerit