multinational en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English national English multinational From multi- + national.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country).
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.
2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022:
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(not-comparable, of a business organization) Operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries (especially more than two).
By operating within many nations, but ouside them at the same time, multinational firms create possibilities of change even in the world political structure
1970, Martyn, Howe, “Foreward”, in Multinational Business Management, Rowman & Littlefield (imprint Lexington Books), →ISBN: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."
1988, Robert Jackall, “Chapter 1: Moral Probations, Old and New”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 14:
Deriveds
multinationally · multinationalism · multinationalize
Translations (42)
ka მულტიეროვნული (operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries) · ka მულტინაციონალური (of, or involving more than two countries) · nrf multinâtionnal (of, or involving more than two countries) · oc multinacional (of, or involving more than two countries) · ka მრავალნაციონალური (of, or involving more than two countries) · gl multinacional (of, or involving more than two countries) · ca multinacional (operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries) · es multinacional (operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries) · ka მრავალეროვნული (of, or involving more than two countries) · ka მრავალნაციონალური (operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries) · bg многонароден (of, or involving more than two countries) · pt multinacional (of, or involving more than two countries) · es multinacional (of, or involving more than two countries) · fi monikansallinen (of, or involving more than two countries) · id multinasional (of, or involving more than two countries) · uk багатонаціона́льний (of, or involving more than two countries) · sv multinationell (operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries) · ka მრავალეროვნული (operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries) · gl multinacional (operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries) · be шматнацыяна́льны (of, or involving more than two countries) · pl wielonarodowy (of, or involving more than two countries) · it multinazionale (operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries) · ka მულტინაციონალური (operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries) · hu multinacionális (operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries) · pt multinacional (operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries) · fr multinational (of, or involving more than two countries) · mi whenuarau (of, or involving more than two countries) · ru междунаро́дный (of, or involving more than two countries) · pl wielonarodowy (operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries) · ru многонациона́льный (of, or involving more than two countries) · bg многонациона́лен (of, or involving more than two countries) · id multinasional (operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries) · fr multinational (operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries) · ka მულტიეროვნული (of, or involving more than two countries) · it multinazionale (of, or involving more than two countries) · hi बहुराष्ट्रीय (of, or involving more than two countries) · fi monikansallinen (operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries) · de multinational (of, or involving more than two countries) · ca multinacional (of, or involving more than two countries) · te బహుళజాతీయ (of, or involving more than two countries) · ka საერთაშორისო (of, or involving more than two countries) · nrf multinâtionnal (operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries)