multinational

English

Etymology

multi- +‎ national

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æʃənəl

Adjective

multinational (not comparable)

1. Of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country).
   • 2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     AS a young student at the multinational Aramco school in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Fadi Jaber, a son of Palestinian refugees, always preferred his American classmates’ cupcakes, brownies and chocolate chip cookies to his mother’s pastries: knafah, qatayef and baklawah.

2. (of a business organization) Operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries (especially more than two).
   • 1970, Martyn, Howe, “Foreward”, in Multinational Business Management‎^[2], Rowman & Littlefield (imprint Lexington Books), →ISBN:

     By operating within many nations, but ouside them at the same time, multinational firms create possibilities of change even in the world political structure

Derived terms

• multinationalism
• multinationally

Translations

of, or involving more than two countries

• Belarusian: шматнацыяна́льны (šmatnacyjanálʹny)
• Bulgarian: многонациона́лен (mnogonacionálen)
• Catalan: multinacional (ca) m or f
• Finnish: monikansallinen (fi)
• French: multinational (fr)
• Galician: multinacional (gl) m or f
• Georgian: მულტინაციონალური (mulṭinacionaluri), მრავალნაციონალური (mravalnacionaluri), მრავალეროვნული (mravalerovnuli), საერთაშორისო (saertašoriso), მულტიეროვნული (mulṭierovnuli) (rare)
• German: multinational (de)
• Indonesian: multinasional (id)
• Italian: multinazionale (it) m or f
• Maori: whenuarau
• Norman: multinâtionnal
• Occitan: multinacional
• Polish: wielonarodowy (pl)
• Portuguese: multinacional (pt) m or f
• Russian: междунаро́дный (ru) (meždunaródnyj), многонациона́льный (ru) (mnogonacionálʹnyj)
• Spanish: multinacional (es)
• Telugu: బహుళజాతీయ (bahuḷajātīya)
• Ukrainian: багатонаціона́льний (uk) (bahatonacionálʹnyj)

operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries

• Catalan: multinacional (ca) m or f
• Finnish: monikansallinen (fi)
• French: multinational (fr)
• Galician: multinacional (gl) m or f
• Georgian: მულტინაციონალური (mulṭinacionaluri), მრავალნაციონალური (mravalnacionaluri), მრავალეროვნული (mravalerovnuli), მულტიეროვნული (mulṭierovnuli) (rare)
• Hungarian: multinacionális (hu)
• Indonesian: multinasional (id)
• Italian: multinazionale (it) m or f
• Norman: multinâtionnal
• Portuguese: multinacional (pt) m or f
• Spanish: multinacional (es)
• Swedish: multinationell (sv)

Noun

multinational (plural multinationals)

1. A multinational company.

Translations

multinational company

• Catalan: multinacional (ca) f
• Cornish: korforeth lieskenedhlek f
• Dutch: multinational (nl) m
• French: multinationale (fr) f
• Galician: multinacional (gl) f
• Georgian: მულტინაციონალური კომპანია (mulṭinacionaluri ḳomṗania), მრავალეროვნული კომპანია (mravalerovnuli ḳomṗania), მრავალნაციონალური კომპანია (mravalnacionaluri ḳomṗania)
• German: multinationales Unternehmen n
• Hungarian: multi (hu)
• Italian: multinazionale (it) f
• Japanese: 多国籍企業 (ja) (takokuseki kigyō)
• Maori: rangatōpū whenuarau
• Polish: koncern (pl) m inan, korporacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: multinacional (pt) f
• Spanish: multinacional (es) f

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English multinational.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˌmʏl.tiˈnɛ.ʃə.nəl/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧na‧ti‧o‧nal

Noun

multinational m (plural multinationals, diminutive multinationaltje n or multinationalletje n)

1. a multinational company

French

Etymology

From multi- +‎ national.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

multinational (feminine multinationale, masculine plural multinationaux, feminine plural multinationales)

1. multinational

Related terms

• multinationale

Further reading

• “multinational”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.