adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a foreign accent
▪ I got a call from a man with a foreign accent.
a foreign correspondent (=reporting on other countries)
▪ He became a top BBC foreign correspondent.
a foreign country (=not your own country)
▪ Have you ever worked in a foreign country?
a foreign firm
▪ There has been renewed competition from foreign firms.
a foreign language
▪ He found learning a foreign language extremely difficult.
a foreign learner
▪ Foreign learners of English often find it difficult to hear the unstressed parts of a word.
a foreign power
▪ He was charged with spying for a foreign power.
a foreign spy
▪ The activities of foreign spies have increased.
a foreign/overseas student
▪ The University welcomes applications from overseas students.
foreign affairs
foreign currency (=the type of money that other countries use)
▪ You can buy foreign currency at the post office.
foreign exchange markets/rates/transactions etc
▪ The dollar is expected to fall in the foreign exchange markets.
foreign exchange (=money in the currency of a foreign country, that a country gets by selling goods abroad)
▪ Timber is a vital source of foreign exchange earnings for the country.
foreign exchange
▪ The dollar is expected to fall in the foreign exchange markets.
foreign imports
▪ Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow in the 1970s.
Foreign nationals
▪ Foreign nationals were advised to leave the country.
Foreign Office, the
foreign policy
▪ Support for human rights is a key element in our foreign policy.
Foreign Secretary
foreign shores
▪ growing fears that English football players will be lured away to foreign shores
foreign tourists
▪ Millions of foreign tourists visit the capital every year.
foreign troops
▪ He demanded that all foreign troops be withdrawn from the region.
foreign/defence/finance etc minister
▪ a meeting of EU foreign ministers
foreign/European/international etc competitors
▪ America's electronics industry is keen to fight off foreign competitors.
foreign/external affairs (=events in other countries)
▪ the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
foreign/international/overseas aid
▪ The development of the continent is now dependent on foreign aid.
foreign/international/overseas travel
▪ The job offers opportunities for foreign travel.
foreign/justice/finance etc ministry
▪ a Defence Ministry spokesman
foreign/overseas investment
▪ The government is eager to attract foreign investment to fund building projects.
international/foreign trade
▪ International trade is essential for long-term economic growth.
the foreign press
▪ African countries want the foreign press to report African affairs.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
affair
▪ They therefore put forward a wide spectrum of policies to cover all politically significant aspects of national life, as well as foreign affairs.
▪ There is little to fight over except narrow policy niceties that interest only foreign affairs buffs and bore most voters.
▪ Clanricarde was appointed under-secretary of state for foreign affairs in 1826, a post he resigned after Canning's death in 1827.
▪ But as an institution, Congress remains largely detached from foreign affairs.
▪ However, Truman was persuaded by Acheson to appoint Dulles in April 1950 as consultant on foreign affairs.
▪ Supervisor of the military and foreign affairs.
▪ Throughout the 1960s, politicians kept up a rather futile polemic as to whether the General cared about anything except foreign affairs.
▪ As veteran senators and representatives with strong international experience leave Congress, their knowledge of foreign affairs is simply not being replaced.
aid
▪ Few foreign aid workers have dared to venture into Helmund province.
▪ The budget allocates $ 19. 45 billion to State Department operations, foreign aid, peacekeeping and international lending institutions.
▪ Major budget cuts, including foreign aid by 76 percent, defence by 10 percent.
▪ Whether the foreign aid will be enough to stabilize the country remains to be seen.
▪ This summary of findings does not refer to all foreign aid projects.
▪ We give about $ 425 million a year in foreign aid for family planning.
▪ To unblock the well or drill a new one would require a new allocation of foreign aid.
bank
▪ The reader should ascertain the degree of foreign bank involvement in his own country.
▪ Whether the foreign banks were more user-friendly than we, I do not know.
▪ So far $ 200m has been found in foreign bank accounts.
▪ The early enthusiasm of foreign banks and investors waned as the government caved in to their opposition.
▪ Its membership embraces foreign banks and investment houses.
▪ In future, enterprises using foreign capital would be allowed foreign currency accounts in the State Bank or a foreign bank.
body
▪ Eyes inflamed from trauma or after foreign bodies have been removed.
▪ A group of prisoners was carefully picking foreign bodies from a mound of rice before cooking.
▪ We describe two cases of accidental aspiration of a foreign body after use of a metered dose inhaler.
▪ Tell everyone to watch out for a foreign body?
▪ Could there be a foreign body in there?
▪ Foreign bodies A small proportion of vaginal discharges are due to foreign bodies.
▪ The intra-uterine device is a foreign body, as are the tampons used to absorb the menstrual flow.
▪ Discussion Aspiration of a foreign body during use of an inhaler has been infrequently reported since the first report in 1981.
capital
▪ More recently, multinationals and foreign capital, with all their implications, have made vertical upward mobility difficult.
▪ Attracting the banks are the resurgent economy and reforms that have opened up industries to foreign capital.
▪ But debtor economies were bled to minimise those losses, and they were restructured to suit foreign capital.
▪ Yet the campaign for foreign capital has foundered, except in the mining sector.
▪ Nevertheless, stations reflected the same combination of foreign capital and nationalist pride.
▪ How do you attract very large quantities of foreign capital?
▪ Catalonia has offices in dozens of foreign capitals.
▪ Yet, however disembodied, these are still transactions involving foreign capital.
company
▪ The foreign company would also assist the Forestry Department in collecting royalty and tax payments from the timber companies.
▪ Do those provisions apply in the case of a foreign company?
▪ Local bureaucracies could easily hin-der foreign companies and help the local businesses they had hoped to compete with.
competition
▪ Instead both firms were to compete in the market against one another and against foreign competition.
▪ For Peter Pan is foreign competition.
▪ The main causes are new products, new technology and foreign competition.
▪ As the production of automobiles by domestic manufacturers fell due to foreign competition, Ramsey lost orders.
▪ The bond market, for example, may not be opened to foreign competition until 1995.
▪ While other larger steel producers had struggled and often failed against foreign competition, Nucor succeeded.
▪ Heavy industry was quailing before foreign competition, but the decline in traditional female areas of work was less steep.
correspondent
▪ And she told me some character called Steve produced a gun when Newman, the foreign correspondent, interrupted their tete-a-tete.
▪ It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat.
▪ Bob Newman, foreign correspondent, frowned as he drove his Mercedes 280E across the loneliness of Suffolk in February.
▪ Government officials failed also in another hide-and-seek game with foreign correspondents.
▪ Mark had idolised foreign correspondents ever since he began in newspapers.
▪ The access of foreign correspondents to government officials and documents is comparable to that in the United States.
▪ And in Bosnia-Herzegovina journalists continue to work in circumstances which are so threatening that most foreign correspondents covering the conflict have fled.
▪ Even in the rarefied world of foreign correspondents, Simon is a standout.
country
▪ The war, which broke out in August 1998, involves a number of foreign countries and several rebel groups.
▪ The future was always a foreign country, always took him by surprise and was always challenged and met with a charge.
▪ I look around me, I feel like this is a foreign country.
▪ Irene sighed and shook her head: no visit to a foreign country seemed complete without bargains to carry home as trophies.
▪ Mr Ryan declined to name the embassies or the foreign countries he had approached or to specify what sums had been raised.
▪ Macci's students include 11 from foreign countries, among them Gerrard Quinland from London.
▪ Computers are like a foreign country in many ways.
currency
▪ This will lead to an inflow of foreign currency.
▪ The reserves are composed of convertible foreign currencies, gold and International Monetary Fund special drawing rights.
▪ Kumar was arrested on Saturday last week, charged with violating foreign currency laws.
▪ But Schro der's leftwing government adopted a less rigid stance on foreign currency.
▪ This market constitutes the Eurocurrency market plus deposits in domestic and foreign currency held by non-residents.
▪ If you are involved in foreign trade, you can benefit from a foreign currency overdraft or loan.
▪ It provided 55 percent of foreign currency revenue and employed 6 percent of the active population.
▪ No foreign warehouses were necessary and orders were invoiced in the appropriate foreign currency.
debt
▪ The first column shows that the poorest regions tend to have the highest ratios of foreign debt to social product.
▪ Hammadi said that the budget would reduce by US$2,495 million foreign debts including new loans expected in 1990.
▪ He adds for good measure that the public-sector deficit would be wiped out if the country stopped paying its foreign debts.
▪ The government was also in difficulty over payments on its foreign debt, estimated at US$6,000 million.
▪ Also under discussion were the former Soviet Union's foreign debt commitments.
▪ Environmentalists remain strongly opposed to such projects which encourage developing countries to sell their natural resources in order to pay their foreign debt.
▪ Foreign-exchange reserves have been maintained at their current low level only by failing to pay back some foreign debt.
▪ The first priority is the servicing of foreign debts and other foreign contracts.
exchange
▪ Investors are particularly concerned such a high percentage of profits came from foreign exchange movements.
▪ Government figures indicated that total foreign exchange reserves stood at only US$14,750,000.
▪ After his retirement, he chaired the committee on currency and foreign exchanges and served on the cabinet committee on indemnity.
▪ Churchill's Cold War speech; and foreign exchange.
▪ The foreign exchange crisis has robbed the country of regular fuel supplies.
▪ As with sovereign governments many of these state enterprises will not directly earn foreign exchange.
▪ This is one reason why the Yugoslav government has tried to avoid raising the price of foreign exchange.
firm
▪ And 27 foreign firms have representative offices in Seoul.
▪ Meanwhile many public assets were sold off cheaply, often to foreign firms.
▪ He did say that 30 bids were being reviewed, all from foreign firms or Western-backed joint ventures.
▪ Will foreign firms get a piece of the action?
▪ In the first place, governments all over the world offer fiscal incentives to attract foreign firms to open factories.
▪ Greenpeace's six month investigation revealed 64 plans for waste dumping operations involving 62 foreign firms in 13 countries.
government
▪ The Foreign Compensation Commission was empowered by statute to deal with claims to compensation under agreements with foreign governments.
▪ Most of the mine-clearing programs are financed by foreign governments or the United Nations.
▪ But foreign governments have been slow to respond with aid.
▪ Alarmed by the case, foreign governments are talking of retaliation.
▪ Collecting such evidence would necessitate the co-operation of foreign governments.
investment
▪ On Dec. 4 the National Assembly unanimously adopted a foreign investment bill, allowing for a liberal regime.
▪ He also dealt with economic issues and foreign investment.
▪ Total direct foreign investment grew to $ 2 billion in 1995 from about $ 1 billion in 1994.
▪ The government likes to quote a figure of $ 3 billion for the foreign investment it has attracted.
▪ A junta official said recently that a dialogue is unnecessary as evidenced by improving foreign investments and relations.
▪ The framework for involvement of foreign investment and technology is now under study.
investor
▪ Will foreign investors be put off and jobs be lost if we stay out?
▪ In many countries this still gives the foreign investor a position of significance.
▪ For foreign investors the question is how the game would unfold.
▪ There were to be tax incentives for foreign investors.
▪ More likely, foreign investors will eventually push the dollar down sharply.
▪ There is a deep recession, and foreign investors are reluctant to commit themselves in the present unstable situation.
land
▪ However, he may receive some additional benefits which recognise the fact that he is working in a foreign land.
▪ In a foreign land, one sees everything from an angle.
▪ We all had an extra cup of coffee to celebrate meeting in a foreign land.
▪ Serving a company in a foreign land, for example, is no longer either a privilege or a hardship.
▪ Metaphor is no mere tourist in a foreign land, it is a bootlegger.
▪ If it is not straw, it is imported coal from foreign lands.
▪ These days Valdez is taking political science classes at Pima Community College and planning to study in a foreign land.
language
▪ The rest deals with foreign languages and other skills useful to people in their jobs.
▪ Thousands, branded parasitical intellectuals merely because they spoke a foreign language or wore spectacles, were systematically liquidated.
▪ Couldn't understand it, though, it was in a foreign language.
▪ He wrote thirty-four mathematics texts, several of them translated into foreign languages, mostly based on his Exeter teaching.
▪ Noticeable commitment to training in general and to foreign language training in particular. 2.
▪ As I travel about the world, I keep promising to learn at least one foreign language.
▪ Both these forms of support suggest that video is a good medium for extended listening to the foreign language.
▪ One also will get surprises by learning a foreign language.
lawyer
▪ My foreign lawyer registration number is ....
▪ There are signs that legislation may be passed in 2001 or 2002 to introduce a regime for foreign lawyers.
market
▪ Too many companies enter foreign markets without analysing sufficiently either the customers or the competition in those markets.
▪ Most foreign markets are cheaper now than ours.
▪ These problems rank well ahead of other difficulties such as handling export paperwork, obtaining market information and ascertaining product suitability in foreign markets.
▪ But now notice that what happens in the foreign market is a mirror image of what happens in the domestic market.
▪ In either case a company's growth objectives may make foreign markets very attractive.
▪ Industries find their foreign markets slowly shrinking rather than finding themselves plunging off an economic cliff.
▪ Never mind the home market, what about the foreign market?
minister
▪ Yeltsin picked Yevgeny Primakov, a spy chief, for foreign minister.
▪ At subsequent meetings Britain attempted to divert the discussions towards its favoured position of a permanent committee of foreign ministers.
ministry
▪ The fostering of trade was preoccupying foreign ministries as never before.
▪ During that period, officials said, all foreign ministry news conferences will be suspended.
▪ In addition, the opposition demanded the foreign ministry and five other cabinet posts.
▪ But should the foreign ministry continue to be in charge of international trade matters?
▪ Occasionally young men with diplomatic ambitions were allowed, if strongly enough recommended, to study in the foreign ministry archives.
▪ The country's foreign ministry issued a communique on its Sovereignty Reaffirmation Day.
▪ Nevertheless, it was the nearest approach to a foreign ministry which the country had as yet possessed.
national
▪ It is irrelevant that the partners are foreign nationals and resident at the time of service outside the jurisdiction.
▪ For many years now, more than half the engineering doctorates awarded in the United States have gone to foreign nationals.
▪ If you go over that line and are a foreign national, you get arrested.
▪ George told Pat of a number of foreign nationals who are imprisoned at present for being found witnessing as Christians.
office
▪ And Douglas will retire soon, I think, so we can have new blood at the foreign office.
▪ In the mid-1820s the total number of despatches sent and received each year by the foreign office was about 12,000.
▪ By the early seventeenth century, therefore, foreign offices, in so far as they existed, were still for the most part embryonic.
▪ By the beginning of the twentieth century the attitudes and ambience of many foreign offices were altering quite rapidly.
▪ Suggestions of this kind culminated in the creation of the foreign office which began its life in 1782.
▪ Clearly the need for works of this kind was now being felt in foreign offices.
▪ From 1865, however, the foreign office had for the first time a department concerned entirely with commercial affairs.
▪ The development of organised diplomatic archives and of foreign office libraries is perhaps best seen in Britain.
policy
▪ In foreign policy they broke off the alliance with Sparta and made alliances with Argos and Thessaly, which had been pro-Persian.
▪ The key question is how flexibility will be applied in sensitive areas such as foreign policy.
▪ Some Republicans believe Dole can draw a clear enough distinction with Clinton to make foreign policy a telling issue in the campaign.
▪ A third main cause of contention between the two parties was foreign policy.
▪ Powell opposed the first foreign policy act of the new president.
▪ The speech sent a strong signal confirming foreign policy is far down on his list of priorities.
▪ Indeed, Clinton spent the first half of his presidency finding his foreign policy legs.
secretary
▪ That is enough for now, thinks Britain's foreign secretary, Douglas Hurd.
▪ As David Carlton stresses, Eden was not the most unequivocal foreign secretary.
▪ During his two-week visit to Britain he is due to meet the foreign secretary, Douglas Hurd.
▪ It was Gerald Kaufman, shadow foreign secretary, who did that for him, in a speech of vast sweeping grasp.
▪ Herbert Morrison, the foreign secretary, was among the more belligerent.
▪ Some ministers, including Sir Geoffrey Howe, the foreign secretary, are simply not interested in environmental issues.
▪ Such thinking was influential in the Foreign Office until at least 1948, and was strongly encouraged by Ernest Bevin as foreign secretary.
▪ In 1825 he married Harriet, the gifted daughter of George Canning, foreign secretary and later prime minister.
trade
▪ The most important areas were agriculture, energy, environmental pollution, competition regulations, and foreign trade.
▪ This involves significant benefits with regard to financial and foreign trade operations, as well as financing.
▪ If you are involved in foreign trade, you can benefit from a foreign currency overdraft or loan.
▪ From the standpoint of the partial equilibrium analysis of the employment impact, the role of foreign trade emerged as especially important.
▪ These deflationary policies of various governments added to unemployment at a time when Britain's foreign trade was depressed.
▪ As late as the 1920s, apart from figures on population and foreign trade, official statistical data barely existed.
visitor
▪ The island is beginning to see an increase in foreign visitors, but as yet very little development has taken place.
▪ We all knew we had foreign visitors among us.
▪ Many foreign visitors, intrigued by her story, used to visit Maria Clementina.
▪ The result is evident in the back streets and courtyards, which Atalla judiciously avoids with a foreign visitor.
▪ I wanted to ensure that foreign visitors who came to this country were also covered by insurance.
▪ According to state statistics, Massachusetts had nearly 27 million domestic visitors in 1994, against 1 million foreign visitors.
▪ An attractive house, used by the State to entertain foreign visitors.
▪ A foreign visitor to Oxford is shown the colleges, libraries, playing fields, laboratories, and administrative offices.
worker
▪ The case has highlighted the risks of exploitation faced by foreign workers.
▪ Apply slightly tougher standards for employers who hire temporary foreign workers for specialty jobs in the high-tech industry and elsewhere.
▪ Attention focuses on the role of foreign workers in the emerging oil industry.
▪ No one knows how many foreign workers will be affected.
▪ Tandem says it is not responsible for the foreign workers it gets through contracts with companies such as Wipro.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
If I should die, think only this of me:/That there's some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England
Shadow Chancellor/Foreign Secretary etc
on British/French/foreign etc soil
▪ He was not a man to show public affection on foreign soil.
▪ Will your grandchildren forgive us, Erich, if we surrender our armies on foreign soil without a fight?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Journey of Hope" won the Oscar in 1991 for best foreign-language film.
▪ America's foreign policy
▪ Can you speak a foreign language?
▪ efforts to increase foreign investment
▪ Some of the hotels accept foreign currency.
▪ The budget calls for cuts in foreign aid.
▪ The tour went through seven foreign countries in two weeks.
▪ Toyota is the leading foreign car company.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ International investment involves the added dimension of dealing in foreign currencies, providing the opportunity for additional profits.
▪ The reserves are composed of convertible foreign currencies, gold and International Monetary Fund special drawing rights.
▪ The soldier threatens me in a foreign language, so that his precise meaning is lost but his hostility is coruscating.
▪ The value of foreign trade fell by 8 percent.
▪ There was no address, and the writing was in a foreign language.