foreign direct investment

English

Noun

foreign direct investment (countable and uncountable, plural foreign direct investments) (abbreviated FDI)

1. (finance, economics) Direct investment into production or business in a country by an individual or company of another country, either by buying a company in the target country or by expanding operations of an existing business in that country.

Synonyms

• foreign investment

Translations

direct investment into a country

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 外商直接投資／外商直接投资 (zh) (wàishāng zhíjiē tóuzī), 外商直接投资 (zh) (wàishāng zhíjiē tóuzī)

• Finnish: ulkomaiset suorat investoinnit pl
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• Khmer: ទុនវិនិយោគ​ផ្ទាល់​ពី​បរទេស (tunviniyook-phtŏəl-pii-bɑɑrĕəʼteih)
• Russian: пряма́я иностра́нная инвести́ция f (prjamája inostránnaja investícija)
• Swedish: utländsk direktinvestering c