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How to spell importing

Importing is spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-I-N-G.

hear itim·port·ing/ɪm'pɔrtɪŋ/verbSchwa and roots

What it means: Bringing products or goods into a country from abroad.

In a sentence: That bustling seaside harbor is busy importing fresh bananas and pineapples today.

The part people get wrong

Simply add -ing to the base word.

Same family: import, imported, imports. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

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