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foreign national

foreign national noun: a non-naturalized citizen of a country.

Noun

foreign national (plural foreign nationals)

  1. A non-naturalized citizen of a country
    • Three townhouses in Richmond, B.C., are being used to house foreign nationals pregnant with “passport babies,” and are among numerous local housing destinations for birth tourists.2012 March 7, Byron Chu, “Hotel Linked to ‘Passport Babies’”, in Toronto Sun, retrieved 18 Feb 2014
    • Under federal law, it is a crime for anyone to enter into the US without the approval of an immigration officer -- it's a misdemeanor offense that carries fines and no more than six months in prison. Many foreign nationals, however, enter the country legally every day on valid work or travel visas...2017, Are undocumented immigrants committing a crime? Not necessarily CNN

foreign national meaning in Tamil

foreign national in Tamil

வெளிநாட்டவர்

Examples of foreign national in a sentence

  • Many foreign nationals, however, enter the country legally every day on valid work or travel visas, and end up overstaying for a variety of reasons.2017, Are undocumented immigrants committing a crime? Not necessarily CNN:
  • These have recently widened to include foreign nationals and firms, heightening worries in the international business community.2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC:

Forms of foreign national

pluralforeign nationals

Questions about foreign national

What does foreign national mean?
Foreign national means a non-naturalized citizen of a country.
What is foreign national in Tamil?
Foreign national in Tamil is வெளிநாட்டவர். See Foreign national meaning in Tamil.
How do you use foreign national in a sentence?
Many foreign nationals, however, enter the country legally every day on valid work or travel visas, and end up overstaying for a variety of reasons.
What part of speech is foreign national?
Foreign national is a noun.
What is the plural of foreign national?
The plural of foreign national is foreign nationals.

Words near foreign national in the dictionary

  1. foreign minister
  2. foreign ministers
  3. foreign money
  4. foreign moneys
  5. foreign muck
  6. foreign national
  7. foreign nationals
  8. Foreign Office
  9. foreign policies
  10. foreign policy
  11. foreign portfolio investment

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foreign national (page history and authors); foreign national (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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