multinational

From multi- + national.

• Rhymes: -æʃənəl

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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 The New York Times‎^[1], 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^[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

   • 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."

multinational (plural multinationals)

1. A multinational company.
   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist‎^[3], 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.

Borrowed from English multinational.

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˌmʏl.tiˈnɛ.ʃə.nəl/

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• Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧na‧ti‧o‧nal

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

1. a multinational company

From multi- +‎ national.

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

1. multinational

• multinationale

• “multinational”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012