Transnational

adj, noun

adj, noun ·4 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone operating in several countries.
Adjective
  1. 1
    Between or beyond national boundaries.
  2. 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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    involving or operating in several nations or nationalities wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
cross nationalmulticountrymulticountrymultinationalmultinationaltranscountry

Example

More examples

"If a transnational corporation had invented Esperanto, it would be English."

Etymology

From trans- + national.

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transnational repression

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