Multinational

Quick meaning: Multinational is an adjective meaning Of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country).

Meaning

Of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country).

More Meanings

1. (of a business organization) Operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries (especially more than two).
2. A multinational company.

Example Sentences

The G8 leaders also called on multinationals to make a full disclosure to the taxman over how much tax they pay in different countries.

By operating within many nations, but ouside them at the same time, multinational firms create possibilities of change even in the world political structure

Some managers seemed sympathetic to the study, although they encouraged me to recast it as a technical issue, such as the "problem of executive succession in multinationals."

AS a young student at the multinational Aramco school in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Fadi Jaber, a son of Palestinian refugees, always preferred his American classmates’ cupcakes, brownies and chocolate chip cookies to his mother’s pastries: knafah, qatayef and baklawah.

Word Forms

• multinationals

Synonyms for multinational

Depending on context, synonyms include international.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include international, transnational, supranational, multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiethnic.

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