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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
multinational
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 company once described people as being like oil rigs.
▪ Here I had these multinational companies fighting over me.
▪ These are therefore the key markets for most multinational companies.
▪ The government therefore turned to multinational companies as potential suitors for Rover.
▪ It also is a proof of concept, that a large, multinational company would rely on a reduced-complexity computing device.
▪ And if a multinational company could be run like this then why not governments, why not the world?
▪ Government departments and multinational companies, for example, are dispersed over wide areas.
corporation
▪ One is the network of the world market and the other is the multinational corporations that operate plants worldwide.
▪ These are the systems that handle accounting at multinational corporations, airline reservations, insurance and banking transactions and stock trades.
▪ The most relevant feature is the high proportion of multinational corporations in Britain.
▪ Are we sovereign in defence, in our dealings with multinational corporations or in any significant matter?
▪ Large multinational corporations produce and acquire vast volumes of information in the course of their business.
▪ The first day of the conference is to be devoted to corporate tax issues affecting national and multinational corporations.
▪ The growth of multinational corporations provided a second spur to Eurocurrency business.
▪ The main providers of such funds are overseas banks, multinational corporations and institutional investors.
firm
▪ Tourists shun regions with high malaria, as do multinational firms choosing the location of foreign investments.
▪ We will in fact use such models in our analysis of multinational firms in chapters 12 and 13.
▪ Tax deficient California's treatment of multinational firms threatens to provoke a global tax war.
▪ With multinational firms it is hard to say where profits are actually earned.
▪ The users of Eurocurrency are multinational firms, central banks and governments and other public authorities.
force
▪ Aircraft dropped 100,000 leaflets on Mogadishu, warning that anyone pointing a weapon at members of the multinational force would be shot.
▪ S.-led multinational force of 6, 000.
▪ It was the worst fighting since the multinational force landed in December to end anarchy.
▪ On the Gulf crisis, Baker urged the deployment of a token Soviet military contingent as part of the multinational force.
▪ Financial assistance to the multinational force was seen in this light.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Multinational companies have often been accused of employing cheap labour in developing countries.
▪ a multinational force sponsored by the UN
▪ a multinational manufacturer
▪ The government is attempting to stimulate the economy by attracting multinational corporations.
▪ The recording business is now controlled by multinational corporations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Crucially, in an era of multinational sports commerce, it also travelled better abroad.
▪ However, they have been very active in the large multinational textile and assembly factories which employ women almost exclusively.
▪ The multinational drug companies are often exploiting that knowledge in their constant search for new and more profitable drugs.
▪ These are therefore the key markets for most multinational companies.
▪ They are adept at arranging huge loans, underwriting stock offerings and putting together multinational mergers.
▪ With the multinational empires torn apart, are the multinational nations next?
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
foreign
▪ Evans concluded that in some developing countries, the foreign multinationals might be a help and not a hindrance to the state.
▪ Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government.
▪ The elite - bureaucrats as well as politicians - needed, it was asserted, alliances with local business and foreign multinationals.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a Connecticut-based multinational that produces chemicals
▪ Several multinationals were fined for environmental pollution.
▪ the power of the big multinationals
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government.
▪ Moreover, the leading multinationals have been able to gain critical efficiencies in financing the whole system.
▪ The multinationals that stand to benefit were deeply involved in the negotiations to establish Gats.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
multinational

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.

Wiktionary
multinational

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

WordNet
multinational

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

Wikipedia
Multinational

The word multinational can refer to:

  • A multinational corporation
  • A multinational military force
  • A multinational state
  • International
  • Multiethnic
  • Transnational (disambiguation)

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.