Exports
['ɛksport]
Examples
- Bankers, merchants, and manufacturers, whose trade depended on exports and interchange of wealth, became bankrupt. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Whether the merchant whose capital exports the surplus produce of any society, be a native or a foreigner, is of very little importance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He did try to prevent the English from exchanging exports for European gold, while permitting imports in the hope of depleting England of gold. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- These few acres alone contained sufficient ore to supply the whole United States iron trade, including exports, for seventy years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The other exports the accommodation and subsistence of a great number, and imports that of a very few only. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Although so many sewing machines are made abroad, the exports from the United States for 1899 amounted to $3,264,344. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The growth subsequent to 1890 is well attested by the exports for 1899, which for mowers and reapers was $9,053,830, or more than four times what it was in 1890. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The exports of wheat to foreign lands in 1898 were 148,231,261 bushels, worth $145,684,659, and the exports of wheat flour for the same year were 15,349,943 barrels, worth $69,263,718. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The one exports what can subsist and accommodate but a very few, and imports the subsistence and accommodation of a great number. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Our exports of glucose and grape sugar for 1899 amounted to 229,003,571 pounds, worth $3,624,890. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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