Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Reaching beyond or transcending national boundaries.
  • adjective Relating to or involving several nations or nationalities.

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  • adjective between or beyond national boundaries
  • adjective involving several nations or nationalities
  • noun Someone operating in several countries.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective involving or operating in several nations or nationalities

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Examples

  • (The increase reflects a rise in transnational marriages, and consequently transnational divorces, as well as growing awareness of the Hague Convention.)

    The Snatchback 2009

  • (The increase reflects a rise in transnational marriages, and consequently transnational divorces, as well as growing awareness of the Hague Convention.)

    The Snatchback 2009

  • (The increase reflects a rise in transnational marriages, and consequently transnational divorces, as well as growing awareness of the Hague Convention.)

    The Snatchback 2009

  • More productive transatlantic studies of American and British writings, then, seek not only to reveal the intellectual, commercial, political, or personal connections between these two nations, but also to illuminate and investigate what Susan Castillo calls the "transatlantic dynamic [...] an irresistible force of attraction and repulsion, absorption and distinction" in transnational discourse (Will Kaufman and Heidi Macpherson xix).

    'An Anti-Democratic Habit of Feeling': Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Toryism in O'Sullivan's Democratic Review 2006

  • My name is Alva D. Bennett, currently I am teching interm. and higher level english to business managers in transnational firms in Mexico D.F. The U.S. company I an owner/sr. officer recruits Certificated English teachers, native speakers of English, to teach to Mexico.

    ESL SCHOOLS FOR SALE IN MEXICO 2006

  • The University of Michigan Law School became the first law school to require a course in transnational law, commencing in 2001.

    Insular Law Schools 2006

  • The interaction between the management of the two companies is studied as a success story in transnational/transcultural corporate interactions, in contrast to the straight takeovers or foreign invasions which are more often the case.

    Mexico Moving practices 2004

  • But Mr. King, who was elected in 2010 and is expected to serve a single, four-year term because of his age, has been stymied as he charted a two-pronged course to convince the so-called transnational companies that the union could be an effective business partner by ensuing improved quality and productivity.

    UAW Moves More Softly on Foreign Auto Plants Matthew Dolan 2011

  • Second, they are transnational, that is, not identified with national ideologies nor driven by short-term policy agendas.

    The virtures of non-profit humanitarian aid 2010

  • Most of the pirates are former fisherman dislodged from their traditional source of income by much larger pirates, namely transnational fishing conglomerates.

    John Feffer: Monsters vs. Aliens 2009

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