exporting
USiks-POR-ting/ɪksˈpɔɹtɪŋ/UKiks-PAW-ting/ɪksˈpɔːtɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of export.
The factory is exporting most of its output to buyers in Europe.
Exporting raw materials brings substantial revenue into the region.
Note
Every use of the verb behind this form is transitive, so the -ing form nearly always carries its object along: exporting grain, exporting a file, exporting a revolution. With be it makes the progressive (the plant is exporting steel). As a gerund it heads a noun phrase yet keeps that object (exporting data takes seconds). One frame serves trade, software and the spread of ideas alike.
exporting is a form of export
export, verb: To sell goods to buyers in a foreign country. Full entry
- Spelling
- export → exporting: add -ing
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