multinational
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æʃənəl
Adjective
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
Translations
of, or involving more than two countries
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operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries
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Noun
multinational (plural multinationals)
- A multinational company.
Translations
multinational company
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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)
- a multinational company
French
Etymology
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Audio: (file)
Adjective
multinational (feminine multinationale, masculine plural multinationaux, feminine plural multinationales)
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Further reading
- “multinational”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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