multinational
multinational adjective: of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country).
Adjective
multinational (not comparable)
- Of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country).
- 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.2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022
- Operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries (especially more than two).
- By operating within many nations, but ouside them at the same time, multinational firms create possibilities of change even in the world political structure1970, Martyn, Howe, “Foreward”, in Multinational Business Management, Rowman & Littlefield (imprint Lexington Books), →ISBN
- 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."1988, Robert Jackall, “Chapter 1: Moral Probations, Old and New”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 14
Noun
multinational (plural multinationals)
- A multinational company.
- The G8 leaders also called on multinationals to make a full disclosure to the taxman over how much tax they pay in different countries.2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023, page 68
multinational meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
multinational in Hindi
- of, or involving more than two countries
- बहुराष्ट्रीय bahurāṣṭrīya
multinational in Tamil
- பன்னாட்டு
multinational in Marathi
- बहुराष्ट्रीय
multinational in Urdu
- کثیر القومی, کثیرالقومی
More languagesFewer languages
- multinational in Bengali
- বহুজাতিক, মাল্টিন্যাশনাল
- multinational in Telugu
- బహుళజాతీయ bahuḷajātīya
- multinational in Malayalam
- ബഹുരാഷ്ട്ര, മൾട്ടിനാഷണൽ
- multinational in Kannada
- ಬಹುರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ, ಹಲನಾಡ
- multinational in Punjabi
- ਮਲਟੀਨੈਸ਼ਨਲ
- multinational in Gujarati
- બહુરાષ્ટ્રીય bahurāṣṭrīya
- multinational in Odia
- ବହୁରାଷ୍ଟ୍ରୀଯ଼
- multinational in Nepali
- बहुराष्ट्रिय
- multinational in Indonesian
- multinasional
Examples of multinational in a sentence
- They run a multinational produce-supply operation.
- Financial capital and multinational companies impose an austeritarian turn (austerity and authoritarianism).
- Multinational corporations continue to use a variant of this scheme to reduce their tax obligations.
Forms of multinational
| plural | multinationals |
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Origin of multinational
From multi- + national.
Words formed from multinational
Words that rhyme with multinational
Questions about multinational
- What does multinational mean?
- Multinational means of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country).
- What is multinational in Hindi?
- Multinational in Hindi is बहुराष्ट्रीय (bahurāṣṭrīya). See Multinational meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is multinational?
- Multinational can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near multinational in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: multinational (page history and authors); multinational (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); multinational (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); multinational (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); multinational (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); multinational (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); multinational (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); multinational (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); બહુરાષ્ટ્રીય (Gujarati) (page history and authors); multinational (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); multinational (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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