multinational

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
English national
English multinational

    From multi- + national.

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -æʃənəl
    • Audio (General American):(file)

    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[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, 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."

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    Noun

    multinational (plural multinationals)

    1. A multinational company.
      • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist‎[3], volume 407, number 8841, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 July 2017, 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

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English multinational.

    Pronunciation

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

    Noun

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

    1. a multinational company

    French

    Etymology

      From multi- +‎ national.

      Pronunciation

      Adjective

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

      1. multinational

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