multinational

1. not comparableOf, 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.

   2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022

2. not comparableOperating, 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

   1970, Martyn, Howe, “Foreward”, in Multinational Business Management, Rowman & Littlefield (imprint Lexington Books), →ISBN

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   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."

   1988, Robert Jackall, “Chapter 1: Moral Probations, Old and New”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 14

plural multinationals

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.

   2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023, page 68