as in international
relating to or involving two or more nations
multinational efforts to negotiate a lasting peace in the region
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Recent Examples of multinational
Elena Giuliano, NBC news, 5 Jan. 2026
The idea was to stop multinational corporations, including Apple and Nike, from using accounting and legal maneuvers to shift earnings to low- or no-tax havens.
—Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
Offering the same employee proposition doesn’t mean the company can copy and paste its culture into different societies; however, a challenge for any budding multinational.
—Rebecca Ann Hughes, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
The Security Council's tools include imposing economic sanctions on a country deemed to have acted outside the law and the charter, military action, and facilitating multinational solutions to conflicts.
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Of all those most threatened by the financialization of European small business, the biggest, most successful and longest-surviving multinational the world had ever seen, the Church, with its corporate headquarters in Rome, had a lot to be worried about.
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For Ramírez, as for many others involved in international extremist violence at the time, the middle years of the 1970s undoubtedly brought opportunities to further their cause and violent careers.—
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In 2006, Argentine authorities issued an international arrest warrant for Rezaei in connection with the 1994 AMIA Jewish community center bombing in Buenos Aires.—
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Kroenke bought nearly 1 million acres of New Mexico ranchland in December from the family behind industrial conglomerate Teledyne, per The Land Report.—
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Late last year, the company I co-founded, Ben & Jerry’s, became part of a new ice cream conglomerate, The Magnum Ice Cream Company, following the demerger of Unilever’s ice cream business.—
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Now, however, the ultimate decisions about what happens at ABC and CBS are made by executives at the megacorporations that own them.—
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The secretive acts of Weyland-Yutani, the megacorporation that is apparently involved in everything in the universe, has fueled countless Alien stories.—
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“Multinational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/multinational. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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