multinational
adjective
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L338566 on Wikidata ↗noun
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L408415 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English national English multinational From multi- + national.
- Of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country).
“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.”
- Operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries (especially more than two).
“By operating within many nations, but ouside them at the same time, multinational firms create possibilities of change even in the world political structure”
“Some managers seemed sympathetic to the study, although they encouraged me to recast it as a technical issue, such as the "problem of executive succession in multinationals."”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English national English multinational From multi- + national.
- A multinational company.
“The G8 leaders also called on multinationals to make a full disclosure to the taxman over how much tax they pay in different countries.”