multinational
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -æʃənəl
Adjective[edit]
multinational (not comparable)
- 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.
- (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[edit]
Translations[edit]
of, or involving more than two countries
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operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries
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Noun[edit]
multinational (plural multinationals)
- A multinational company.
Translations[edit]
multinational company
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Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English multinational.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /ˌmʏl.tiˈnɛ.ʃə.nəl/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧na‧ti‧o‧nal
Noun[edit]
multinational m (plural multinationals, diminutive multinationaltje n or multinationalletje n)
- a multinational company
French[edit]
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Audio (file)
Adjective[edit]
multinational (feminine multinationale, masculine plural multinationaux, feminine plural multinationales)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “multinational”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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