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FDI

FDI is the initialism of foreign direct investment.

Meaning of foreign direct investment

Noun

foreign direct investment (countable and uncountable, plural foreign direct investments)

  1. A direct investment into the production or business in a country by an individual or company of another country, either by purchasing a company in the target country or by expanding operations of an existing business in that country.
    Synonyms:
    FDI

Forms of FDI

pluralFDIs

Questions about FDI

What is FDI the initialism of?
FDI is the initialism of foreign direct investment.

Words near FDI in the dictionary

  1. FDEA
  2. FDFS
  3. FDG
  4. FDH
  5. FDHs
  6. FDI
  7. FDIA
  8. FDIC
  9. FDICIA
  10. FDII
  11. FDIL

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: FDI (page history and authors); foreign direct investment (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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