- 1
Multinational describes a company that owns and runs business in many different countries, not just one — companies like these are often very large and powerful, like a multinational bank or a multinational oil company. It can also just describe anything made up of many nations, like 'a multinational force' made of soldiers from different countries.
跨國的（跨國公司）
組成multi-（多）加上 national（國家的）。
同家族的字
- nationalshares the base word nation
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
multinationaladj
- 1
Of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country).
- 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.
- 2
Operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries (especially more than two).
- 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."
multinationalnoun
- 1
A multinational company.
- The G8 leaders also called on multinationals to make a full disclosure to the taxman over how much tax they pay in different countries.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。