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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
transnational
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
capitalist
▪ Not all of the practices of the transnational capitalist class are transnational.
▪ So the idea of the transnational capitalist class includes fractions of both the old indigenous bourgeoisie and the comprador bourgeoisie.
▪ The term transnational capitalist class is used interchangeably in the singular and the plural.
▪ The strength and unity of the transnational capitalist class are, therefore, always open to empirical questions.
▪ These young people are, of course, those from whom tomorrow's transnational capitalist class will be recruited.
▪ This raises the question of political practices and the transnational capitalist class, to which I now turn.
company
▪ Meanwhile for the transnational companies that dominate the global coffee economy, the slump in coffee prices is generating windfall gains.
▪ Yet there is greater emphasis in the transnational company model on the complete integration and interdependence of operating structures.
▪ At the same time the structure of corporate organization has changed with the growing importance of the multi-locational, often transnational company.
▪ Apart from the efforts of transnational companies already mentioned, there are other strategic and financial considerations.
corporation
▪ Sutherland demonstrated that corporate crime was widespread and virtually endemic in contemporary national and transnational corporations.
▪ The transnational corporation enters the scene when sellers, intermediaries and buyers are parts of the same global organization.
▪ They can thus be isolated from particular transnational corporations identified with particular imperialist powers.
▪ But the vehicle itself is the mighty transnational corporation.
▪ Thus, the primary agent and institutional focus of economic transnational practices is the transnational corporation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Due to transnational industrialization the export capacity of both countries increased.
▪ Sutherland demonstrated that corporate crime was widespread and virtually endemic in contemporary national and transnational corporations.
▪ The term transnational capitalist class is used interchangeably in the singular and the plural.
▪ These young people are, of course, those from whom tomorrow's transnational capitalist class will be recruited.
▪ When we experience the need for a global product we are engaged in a typical cultural-ideological transnational practice.
▪ Yet there is greater emphasis in the transnational company model on the complete integration and interdependence of operating structures.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
transnational

1921, from trans- + national (adj.). Related: Transnationally.

Wiktionary
transnational

a. 1 between or beyond national boundaries 2 involving several nations or nationalities n. Someone operating in several countries.

WordNet
transnational

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

Wikipedia
Transnational

Transnational may refer to:

  • Transnational company
  • Transnational crime
  • Transnational feminism
  • Transnational governance
  • Transnationality
  • Transnational marriage
  • Transnational organization
  • Transnational organized crime
  • Transnational political party
  • Transnational progressivism
  • Transnational (VNV Nation album)
Transnational (VNV Nation album)

Transnational is the ninth studio album by the German-based alternative electronic band VNV Nation, released on October 11, 2013 in Europe and on November 19, 2013 in America under Anachron Sounds.

It charted in the mainstream chart in Germany at no. 9 (2 weeks total), in Switzerland at no. 99 (1 week total) and in Belgium at no. 132 (1 week total).

Usage examples of "transnational".

On November 10, CIA analysts briefed the Small Group of principals on their preliminary findings that the attack was carried out by a cell of Yemeni residents with some ties to the transnational mujahideen network.

Clarke said that the new team,having been out of government for eight years,had a steep learning curve to understand al Qaeda and the new transnational terrorist threat.

January 2000: the CIA does not develop a transnational plan for tracking Mihdhar and his associates so that they could be followed to Bangkok and onward, including the United States.

The NCTC should lead strategic analysis, pooling all-source intelligence, foreign and domestic, about transnational terrorist organizations with global reach.

President Clinton repeatedly linked terrorist groups and WMD as transnational threats for the new global era.

It was a transnational organization with a visible footprint, albeit from relief work, and no official state sponsor.

The nonstate, or transnational, actor had been waiting impatiently in the wings.

These slogans are meant to evoke the values of globalism that would infuse the new international order, or really the new transnational democracy.

The huge transnational corporations construct the fundamental connective fabric of the biopolitical world in certain important respects.

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.

The transnational corporations directly distribute labor power over various markets, functionally allocate resources, and organize hierarchically the various sectors of world production.

In the previous section we referred to both the structural means of intervention that involve the deployments of monetary mechanisms and financial maneuvers over the transnational field of interdependent productive regimes and interventions in the field of communication and their effects on the legitimation of the system.

The great transnational corporations that straddle national boundaries and link the global system are themselves internally much more diverse and fluid culturally than the parochial modern corporations of previous years.

The transnational corporation addresses with different methods and degrees of exploitation and repression each of the ethnic groups of workers-variously of European and African descent and from different Amerindian groups.

From manufacturing to large-scale industry, from finance capital to transnational restructuring and the globalization of the market, it is always the initiatives of organized labor power that determine the figure of capitalist development.