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cross-border

cross-border adjective: taking place across a border.

Adjective

cross-border (not comparable)

  1. Taking place across a border.
    • As we have seen, cross-border exposures carry a risk for the lender as well as the investor.2001, Thomas Krayenbuehl, Cross-Border Exposures and Country Risk: Assessment and Monitoring, →ISBN
    • At the heart of cross-border litigation is a series of premises that have already been described.2002, Marta Pertegás Sender, Cross-border Enforcement of Patent Rights, →ISBN

Adverb

cross-border (not comparable)

  1. Across a border.
    • Working Cross-Border It must be assumed that working cross-border to prevent the spread of HIV/ AIDS is a good thing.1998, Edna Oppenheimer, Matana Bunnag, Aaron Stern, HIV/AIDS and Cross-Border Migration, →ISBN
    • In general, groups working cross-border are much better-funded, and have more capacity, than those working inside Burma.2007, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee, DFID asistance to Burmese internally displaced people and refugees on the Thai-Burma border, →ISBN

Examples of cross-border in a sentence

  • "Beyond Hawick to Carlisle, it's going to depend a lot more on the cross-border traffic.2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in RAIL, page 54:
  • The statement acknowledged the challenges and complex issues involved in working 'cross-border' but believed that the concept could be realized (WAPOL 2003a).2012, Saskia Hufnagel, Clive Harfield, Simon Bronitt, Cross-border Law Enforcement, →ISBN:
  • Have these additional costs dissuaded you from investing cross-border?2012, Erwin Nijkeuter, Taxation of Cross-Border Dividends Paid to Individuals from an EU Perspective, →ISBN:

Forms of cross-border

alternative formcrossborder
alternative formcross border

Origin of cross-border

From cross- + border.

Words formed from cross-border

Phrases with cross-border

Questions about cross-border

What does cross-border mean?
Cross-border means taking place across a border.
How do you use cross-border in a sentence?
"Beyond Hawick to Carlisle, it's going to depend a lot more on the cross-border traffic.
What part of speech is cross-border?
Cross-border can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near cross-border in the dictionary

  1. cross-biting
  2. cross-bitten
  3. cross-bonding
  4. cross-bone
  5. cross-bones
  6. cross-border
  7. cross-border ticket
  8. cross-border tickets
  9. cross-bought
  10. cross-bow
  11. cross-bows

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