importable

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French importable.

Adjective

importable (comparative more importable, superlative most importable)

(obsolete) Insupportable, unbearable.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
  So both attonce him charge on either side, / With hideous strokes, and importable powre […]

Etymology 2

From import +‎ -able.

Adjective

importable (comparative more importable, superlative most importable)

Capable of being imported.

Translations

able to be imported

Manx: so-chionnaghey stiagh

Noun

importable (plural importables)

Something that can be imported.
- 2015 July, Peter Lloyd, Donald MacLaren, “Assistance to Australian Agriculture from Federation to World War II”, in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (via SSRN)‎:
  Then the nominal rates of assistance from these measures are calculated for 20 agricultural products, 14 of which are classified as exportables and 6 as importables.

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