multinational

multinational

English

Etymology

multi- +‎ national

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æʃənəl

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 New York Times‎:

     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.

   1. (of a business organization) Operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries (especially more than two).

Derived terms

• multinationalism
• multinationally

Translations

of, or involving more than two countries

Belarusian: шматнацыяна́льны (šmatnacyjanálʹny) Bulgarian: многонациона́лен (mnogonacionálen) Catalan: multinacional (ca) m or f Finnish: monikansallinen (fi) French: multinational (fr) Galician: multinacional m or f Georgian: მულტინაციონალური (mulṭinacionaluri), მრავალნაციონალური (mravalnacionaluri), მრავალეროვნული (mravalerovnuli), საერთაშორისო (saertašoriso), მულტიეროვნული (mulṭierovnuli) (rare) German: multinational (de) Indonesian: multinasional (id) Italian: multinazionale (it) m or f Norman: multinâtionnal Occitan: multinacional Polish: wielonarodowy (pl) Portuguese: multinacional (pt) m or f Russian: междунаро́дный (ru) (meždunaródnyj), многонациона́льный (ru) (mnogonacionálʹnyj) Spanish: multinacional (es) Telugu: బహుళజాతీయ (bahuḷajātīya) Ukrainian: багатонаціона́льний (uk) (bahatonacionálʹnyj)

operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries

Catalan: multinacional (ca) m or f Finnish: monikansallinen (fi) French: multinational (fr) Galician: multinacional m or f Georgian: მულტინაციონალური (mulṭinacionaluri), მრავალნაციონალური (mravalnacionaluri), მრავალეროვნული (mravalerovnuli), მულტიეროვნული (mulṭierovnuli) (rare) Hungarian: multinacionális (hu) Indonesian: multinasional (id) Italian: multinazionale (it) m or f Norman: multinâtionnal Portuguese: multinacional (pt) m or f Spanish: multinacional (es) Swedish: multinationell (sv)

Noun

multinational (plural multinationals)

1. A multinational company.

Translations

multinational company

Catalan: multinacional (ca) f Cornish: korforeth lieskenedhlek f Dutch: multinational (nl) m French: multinationale (fr) f Galician: multinacional f Georgian: მულტინაციონალური კომპანია (mulṭinacionaluri ḳomṗania), მრავალეროვნული კომპანია (mravalerovnuli ḳomṗania), მრავალნაციონალური კომპანია (mravalnacionaluri ḳomṗania) German: multinationales Unternehmen n Hungarian: multi (hu) Italian: multinazionale (it) f Japanese: 多国籍企業 (ja) (takokuseki kigyō) Polish: koncern (pl) m inan, korporacja (pl) f Portuguese: multinacional (pt) f Spanish: multinacional (es) f

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Dutch

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

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French

Etymology

multi- +‎ national

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

1. multinational

Related terms

• multinationale

Further reading

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