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foreign direct investment

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English

Syllables
for-eign di-rec-t in-vest-ment
IPA
35
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

foreign direct investments (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

foreign portfolio investment FPI

Synonyms

FDI

Questions

What does foreign direct investment mean?
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.

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