Imported and Native

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Imported

Imported adjective - Used of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source.
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Native is an antonym for imported.
Nearby Words: import, importing, importation, importer, importable

Native

Native adjective - Belonging to a particular place by birth or origin.
Usage example: though she now lived in the Northeast, she was a native Midwesterner
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Antonyms for Native
Imported is an antonym for native.
Nearby Words: nativity, natively
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  • Series / Jonathan Creek The toad wasn't native to England and had been imported by a local hippie colony for this very purpose.
    Source: Series / Jonathan Creek
  • Franchise / Star Wars Apparently native to Tatooine, but it has been suggested in the Expanded Universe they were in fact imported from Nubia, where they are also found.
    Source: Franchise / Star Wars
  • Several Afro-Caribbean faiths such as Santeria mix Catholicism with the native religions of imported African slaves (Yoruba in the case of Santeria).
    Source: Interfaith Smoothie
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