multinational
/mˌʌltˌaɪnˈæʃənəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country).
adj
Operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries (especially more than two).
noun
A multinational company.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "By operating within many nations, but ouside them at the same time, multinational firms create possibilities of change even in the world political structure"
- "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.""
- "The G8 leaders also called on multinationals to make a full disclosure to the taxman over how much tax they pay in different countries."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English national English multinational From multi- + national.