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foreign

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, ferren , foran , foreyne , in reference to places, "outside the boundaries of a country;" of persons, "born in another country," from Old French forain "strange, foreign; outer, external, outdoor; remote, out-of-the-way" (12c.), from Medieval Latin ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foreign \For"eign\, a. [OE. forein, F. forain, LL. foraneus, fr. L. foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores doors, and E. door. See Door , and cf. Foreclose , Forfeit , Forest , Forum .] Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Foreign may refer to: Foreign accent syndrome , a side effect of severe brain injury Foreign corporation , a corporation that can do business outside its jurisdiction Foreign film, also known as world cinema , are films and film industries of non-English ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign office" [ant: domestic ] relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "foreign nations"; "a foreign ...

Usage examples of foreign.

Fourthly, since the atmosphere is not deprived of its own accidents, it would have at the one time its own accidents and others foreign to it.

To this it may be replied, that the acts under consideration, though of very ample extent, do not operate as a prohibition of all foreign commerce.

State tax on each passenger arriving on a vessel from a foreign country was set aside, though chiefly in reliance on existing treaties and acts of Congress.

State, as a condition of doing business within its jurisdiction, may exact a license tax from a telegraph company, a large part of whose business is the transmission of messages from one State to another and between the United States and foreign countries, and which is invested with the powers and privileges conferred by the act of Congress passed July 24, 1866, and other acts incorporated in Title LXV of the Revised Statutes?

But again Adams was telling the Foreign Minister what he already knew, since Adams had earlier expressed his views to Chaumont, who lost no time reporting the conversation to Vergennes.

At the same time, a dispatch from the Foreign Minister went off to Philadelphia directing La Luzerne to see what could be done to have Adams recalled.

Since he could not have the intractable Adams standing in the way, the French Foreign Minister sent specific instructions to La Luzerne to do whatever necessary to have Adams removed.

In his diary afterward Adams recorded the essence of the conversation: He said that Lord Carmarthen was their Minister of Foreign Affairs, that I must first wait on him, and he would introduce me to his Majesty.

He was not so concerned about a President staying long in office, Adams said, as he was about too frequent elections, which often brought out the worst in people and increased the chances of foreign influence.

Edmund Charles Genet, the audacious new envoy from Jacobin France, was the son of Edme Genet, the French foreign office translator, with whom Adams had once worked in Paris, turning out propaganda for the American Revolution.

How could McHenry and Pickering presume to know what to do in matters of foreign affairs, Adams went on.

As the weeks passed and the Africans continued to progress, causing ever greater turmoil, foreign nations became increasingly dubious about the ability of the United States to control the bees.

Their whole purpose is to make contact with other foreign agents so they can get intel.

So Nancy Floyd approached a pair of agents in her own Foreign Counter Intelligence Division on the twenty-fifth floor at 26 Federal Plaza.

Salem would work as an asset of the Foreign Counter Intelligence Branch, with Nancy Floyd as his salary contact and Napoli and Anticev as the formal case agents who would process his intel.