IMPORT Copy link • IMPORT 1. v. To bring goods into a country, invehere: importare (whether by waggons or ships). Mean, Vid: It imports, what imports it? interest: refert: Vid: under IMPORTANCE. 2. s. Meaning, Vid: Importance, Vid: Imports (opposed to exports), merces importatae: merces importaticiae (e.g., frumentum importaticium, Hirt., B. Afr., 20): merces adventiciae (foreign; opposed to domesticae): merces mari suppeditatae (if imported from over seas).