multinational

multi- +‎ national

• Rhymes: -æʃənəl

multinational (not comparable)

1. Of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country).
   • 2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in New York Times‎:

     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.

   1. (of a business organization) Operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries (especially more than two).

• multinationalism
• multinationally

multinational (plural multinationals)

1. A multinational company.

Borrowed from English multinational.

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˌmʏl.tiˈnɛ.ʃə.nəl/

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• Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧na‧ti‧o‧nal

multinational m (plural multinationals, diminutive multinationaltje n or multinationalletje n)

1. a multinational company

From multi- +‎ national.

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multinational (feminine multinationale, masculine plural multinationaux, feminine plural multinationales)

1. multinational

• multinationale

• “multinational”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.