BASF
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German BASF (“Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik”).
Proper noun
[edit]BASF
- A German chemical manufacturer.
- 2023 September 19, Laura He, “China woos Tesla, JP Morgan and other Western companies as foreign investment slumps”, in CNN Business[1]:
- Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and head of the country’s foreign exchange regulator, chaired a symposium with representatives from foreign companies, including JP Morgan, Tesla (TSLA), HSBC (HSBC), Deutsche Bank (DB), BNP Paribas, Japan’s MUFG Bank, German chemical producer BASF, commodities trader Trafigura and Schneider Electric, according to a statement posted on the websites of the PBOC and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE).
German
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[edit]Proper noun
[edit]BASF
- initialism of Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik, a German chemical manufacturer