reimport

plural reimports

1. The act or practice of importing again, or back to a place of origin; reimportation.

   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.

   2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 266

2. A product which has been reimported.

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

present singular third person reimports · participle present reimporting · participle past reimported · past 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.