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multinational

Word definitions for multinational in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 of, or involving more than two countries 2 (context of a business organization English) operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries (especially more than two) n. a multinational company

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also multi-national , by 1921, from multi- + national . Originally with reference to states; later (by 1960) to corporations and organizations. As a noun, short for multinational corporation , attested by 1971.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a multinational company (= with offices in many countries ) ▪ Within ten years the business grew into a huge multinational company. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN company ▪ A medical officer of a large multinational ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The word multinational can refer to: A multinational corporation A multinational military force A multinational state International Multiethnic Transnational (disambiguation)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. involving or operating in several nations or nationalities; "multinational corporations"; "transnational terrorist networks" [syn: transnational ]

Usage examples of multinational.

Besieged by solicitations for products and services we neither want nor need, misrepresented and misgoverned by corrupt politicians beholden to multinational megacorporations, and reduced to involuntary servitude by usurious financial institutions, we are not so much consumers as we are in danger of being consumed.

Funded by multinational polluters such as Phillips Petroleum, Exxon, Texaco, Amoco, Shell, Ford Motor Company, and Chevron, the MSLF filed suits intended to block efforts by environmentalists, unions, minorities, and handicapped Americans that might cut into corporate profit taking.

The model that Washington should use as it studies the future of the Central Asia region, as well as that of the emerging new Middle East, is not that of a new Moslem empire but that of a multinational and multiethnic mosaic, in which political, military, and economic cooperation will coexist with chaotic ethnic and religious rivalries, not necessarily between Christians and Moslems and certainly not as a result of religious subversion by one player, such as Iran.

Capital has indeed always been organized with a view toward the entire global sphere, but only in the second halfof the twentieth century did multinational and transnational industrial and financial corporations really begin to structure global territories biopolitically.

There were the Amerikan priests and the Israeli priests, and their allies the Opeckers, the Capitalists, the Multinationals and the Degeneratburjwa.

Lunar Associates set out to explore near-Earth asteroids in search of raw material which could be sold to the multinational companies that had formed a consortium to build an orbital colony in a Lagrange point in cislunar space.

Freighters, containerships, bulk carriers, tankers, military vessels of every size and shape, cruise ships, they all docked at Singapore, and they carried multinational crews.

Redwing, with the enthusiastic assistance of Erin Lafferty, as well as the sous-chef labours of Desis One and Two, created a multinational barbecue on the redwood porch.

When they send the big multinational mission next year, they can haul the Hets forward, if it seems the right thing to do.

Although the CPUSA refused to support the demonstration through hatred for Trotskyism and their support for the Democratic mayor, Fiorello La Guardia, whose police were protecting the Bund, many of its multinational rank and file did attend.

But if this business is a business at all, it must be a lending libraryhuge, conglomerate, multinational, underfunded, overinvested.

The International Regulations on Sigint govern the actions of the multinational cyberspies, from the wording of their indoctrination oaths to the format of their intercept forms to their unique cryptospeak of codewords and covernames.

LlewellCo is a multibillion dollar multinational company with a finger in a lot of pies.

They sped around fleeing yachties, dodged the Coast Guard cutter that had positioned itself to keep back curious tourists, shot past the two big lifeboats that looked like fat waterborne grubs and that were carrying the multinational crew of the tanker to safety.

It was the bme of corporate takeovers, of multinational alliances where profits could be made on both sides of the Atlantic by the same single entities.