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multinational

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English

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Etymology

From multi- + national.

Pronunciation

Adjective

multinational (not comparable)

  1. Of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country).
    • 2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 June 2022:
      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.
  2. (of a business organization) Operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries (especially more than two).
    • 1970, Martyn, Howe, “Foreward”, in Multinational Business Management, Rowman & Littlefield (imprint Lexington Books), →ISBN:
      By operating within many nations, but ouside them at the same time, multinational firms create possibilities of change even in the world political structure
    • 1988, Robert Jackall, “Chapter 1: Moral Probations, Old and New”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 14:
      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."

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Noun

multinational (plural multinationals)

  1. A multinational company.
    • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, archived from the original on 27 October 2020, page 68:
      The G8 leaders also called on multinationals to make a full disclosure to the taxman over how much tax they pay in different countries.

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Dutch

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Etymology

Borrowed from English multinational.

Pronunciation

  • (Netherlands) IPA(key): /ˌmʏl.tiˈnɛ.ʃə.nəl/
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  • Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧na‧ti‧o‧nal

Noun

multinational m (plural multinationals, diminutive multinationaltje n or multinationalletje n)

  1. a multinational company

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

From multi- + national.

Pronunciation

Adjective

multinational (feminine multinationale, masculine plural multinationaux, feminine plural multinationales)

  1. multinational

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