Export-processing and Export

noun

• Commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country.
  • synonyms: exportation

verb

• Sell or transfer abroad.
  • usage: "we export less than we import and have a negative trade balance"
• Transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs.
• Cause to spread in another part of the world.
  • usage: "The Russians exported Marxism to Africa"

• (n.) The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco.
• (n.) That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; -- used chiefly in the plural, exports.
• (v.t.) To carry away; to remove.
• (v.t.) To carry or send abroad or out of a country, especially to foreign countries, as merchandise or commodities in the way of commerce; -- the opposite of import; as, to export grain, cotton, cattle, goods, etc.