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multinational

English

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Etymology

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From multi- +‎ national.

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Adjective

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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 New York Times‎[1]:
      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[2], 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

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Noun

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multinational (plural multinationals)

  1. A multinational company.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English multinational.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

  1. a multinational company

French

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Etymology

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From multi- +‎ national.

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

  1. multinational
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