Meanings
alternative crossborder · alternative cross border
- not comparableTaking place across a border.
As we have seen, cross-border exposures carry a risk for the lender as well as the investor.
2001, Thomas Krayenbuehl, Cross-Border Exposures and Country Risk: Assessment and Monitoring, →ISBN4 more examples
At the heart of cross-border litigation is a series of premises that have already been described.
2002, Marta Pertegás Sender, Cross-border Enforcement of Patent Rights, →ISBNCanadians didn't spend as much in the U.S. during the first three months of the year as they did in the previous quarter, as cross-border shopping lost some of its lustre, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.
2008 May 28, “Canadians not cross-border shopping like they used to”, in CBC News, Canada, retrieved 01 Nov 2011Having inherited a relatively strong anticrime apparatus from the British administration, the postcolonial state in the HKSAR has had difficulty in combating cross-border crime since its retrocession to the mainland.
2009, Shiu Hing Lo, The Politics of Cross-border Crime in Greater China, →ISBN"Beyond Hawick to Carlisle, it's going to depend a lot more on the cross-border traffic. Possibly it would be a useful diversionary route if anything happened either on the West Coast route or the East Coast route, but then I suppose it's more difficult to quantify the benefit from that.
2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in RAIL, page 54
alternative crossborder · alternative cross border
- not comparableAcross a border.
Have these additional costs dissuaded you from investing cross-border?
2012, Erwin Nijkeuter, Taxation of Cross-Border Dividends Paid to Individuals from an EU Perspective, →ISBN4 more examples
Working Cross-Border It must be assumed that working cross-border to prevent the spread of HIV/ AIDS is a good thing.
1998, Edna Oppenheimer, Matana Bunnag, Aaron Stern, HIV/AIDS and Cross-Border Migration, →ISBNIn general, groups working cross-border are much better-funded, and have more capacity, than those working inside Burma.
2007, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee, DFID asistance to Burmese internally displaced people and refugees on the Thai-Burma border, →ISBNThe statement acknowledged the challenges and complex issues involved in working 'cross-border' but believed that the concept could be realized (WAPOL 2003a).
2012, Saskia Hufnagel, Clive Harfield, Simon Bronitt, Cross-border Law Enforcement, →ISBNThe final decision tool consists of three sections: a general section, a section for hospitals not cooperating cross-border and a section for hospitals that are cooperating with hospitals across a national or regional border.
2013, Issues in Healthcare Technology and Design, →ISBN, page 4
Origin
- Englishcross-
- Old Frenchbordeure
- Middle Englishbordure
- Englishborder
- Englishcross-border
Translations
Afrikaans oorgrens
- oorgrenstaking place across a border
Basque mugaz bestaldeko
- mugaz bestaldekotaking place across a border
Catalan transfronterer
- transfronterertaking place across a border
Chinese Mandarin 跨境
- 跨境 (kuàjìng)taking place across a border
Czech přeshraniční
- přeshraničnítaking place across a border
Danish grænseoverskridende
- grænseoverskridendetaking place across a border
Dutch grensoverschrijdend, grensoverstijgend
- grensoverschrijdendtaking place across a border
- grensoverstijgendtaking place across a border
Finnish rajan ylittävä, rajat ylittävä
- rajan ylittävätaking place across a border
- rajat ylittävätaking place across a border
French transfrontalier
- transfrontaliertaking place across a border
German grenzüberschreitend, grenzübergreifend
- grenzüberschreitendtaking place across a border
- grenzübergreifendtaking place across a border
Greek διασυνοριακός
- διασυνοριακός (diasynoriakós)taking place across a border
Italian transfrontaliero
- transfrontalierotaking place across a border
Norwegian Bokmål grenseoverskridende
- grenseoverskridendetaking place across a border
Portuguese transfronteiriço
- transfronteiriçotaking place across a border
Spanish transfronterizo
- transfronterizotaking place across a border
Swedish gränsöverskridande
- gränsöverskridandetaking place across a border
Cite this entry
cross-border. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cross-border
“cross-border.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cross-border. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cross-border,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cross-border.
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