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transnational

transnational adjective: between or beyond national boundaries.

Adjective

transnational (comparative more transnational, superlative most transnational)

  1. Between or beyond national boundaries.
  2. Involving several nations or nationalities.
    • And finally, the transnational discourses of antiapartheidism and divestiture had led the U.K. television industry to ban sales of current programs to South Africa, again shaping the ways Bop-TV could enact its particular form of antigovernment, antiapartheid cultural politics.2013 April 1, Timothy Havens, Black Television Travels: African American Media around the Globe (Book collections on Project MUSE), NYU Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75
    • While MS-13 is not the only transnational gang this administration will target, we believe the following background information attributed as “information provided by the Justice Department” will be helpful: […]2017 April 18, “DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FACT SHEET ON MS-13”, in United States Department of Justice, page 1

Noun

transnational (plural transnationals)

  1. Someone operating in several countries.

transnational meaning in Malay and Indonesian

transnational in Malay

between or beyond national boundaries
rentas negara

transnational in Indonesian

between or beyond national boundaries
transnasional, lintas negara

Examples of transnational in a sentence

  • What form of transpatriarchy is evolving from the practices of transnational fathers and their partners?
  • The ideal formulated above provides the larger framework for understanding the ways of the transnational parliament.
  • He attacked "transnational economic elites" and "globocrats" for their seeming indifference to national borders.

All 20 example sentences with transnational

Forms of transnational

Adjective
comparativemore transnational
superlativemost transnational
Noun
pluraltransnationals

Origin of transnational

From trans- + national.

Words formed from transnational

Words that rhyme with transnational

14 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about transnational

What does transnational mean?
Transnational means between or beyond national boundaries.
What is transnational in Malay?
Transnational in Malay is rentas negara. See Transnational meaning in Malay.
What part of speech is transnational?
Transnational can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near transnational in the dictionary

  1. transnasal
  2. transnasally
  3. transnatal
  4. transnatation
  5. transnation
  6. transnational
  7. transnational repression
  8. transnationalism
  9. transnationalisms
  10. transnationalist
  11. transnationalities

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