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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cross-border
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cross-border raid (=across a border between two countries)
▪ Cross-border raids into Kenya last year caused a serious diplomatic conflict.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ cross-border trade
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Between them they have no formal cross-border arrangement.
▪ Further, it envisages the liberalisation of cross-border mail, international mail and direct mail.
▪ He was tried there under cross-border legislation and was sentenced to 10 years for the break-out.
▪ In 1949, cross-border influences were felt in the Northern Ireland elections.
▪ The cross-border implications of such arguments are now starting to appear.
▪ The last four cross-border meetings have yielded four goals with Gerry Armstrong getting ours at Windsor some 13 years ago.
Wiktionary
cross-border

a. Taking place across a border. adv. Across a border. alt. Taking place across a border.

Usage examples of "cross-border".

They've taken over Macedonia, they are staging massive resupply missions and setting up huge hardware and ammunition depots in Bulgaria and Serbia, and they're conducting cross-border raids into Albania that look suspiciously like another invasion operation-the Germans are virtually stepping aside, letting them cruise anywhere in the Balkans.

A caricature of the bullet-shaped head had been the leading graphic for yesterday's online edition of the Wall Street journal: Camden had led a major coup in cross-border data-atoll investment.

The twelve-man team he now commanded had served with him in Afghanistan, running long-range insertions into mujahedin-held territory--specializing in assassinations of the rebels command structure and cross-border operations into Pakistan against commanders of the mujahedin base camps and staging areas.

Thanks to relaxed cross-border inspections in Europe and the dazed preoccupations of America's ninja tobacco inspectors, these Yankee gun-runners had boldly brought Raf an up-to-date and very lethal arsenal of NATO's remaindered best.