Transnational Meaning
/træˈnsnæʃənəl/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjBetween or beyond national boundaries.
adjInvolving several nations or nationalities.
Sentence Examples
If a transnational corporation had invented Esperanto, it would be English.
Illegal logging is a transnational problem.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The company operates in many countries, making it a ____ corporation with offices on every continent.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The company has become a large ____ corporation after opening several new offices in different countries this year today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-t Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English trans- English national English transnational From trans- + national.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"And finally, the transnational discourses of antiapartheidism and divestiture had led the U.K. television industry to ban sales of current programs to South Africa, again shaping the ways Bop-TV could enact its particular form of antigovernment, antiapartheid cultural politics."
— 2013 April 1, Timothy Havens, Black Television Travels: African American Media around the Globe (Book collections on Project MUSE), NYU Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75:
"While MS-13 is not the only transnational gang this administration will target, we believe the following background information attributed as “information provided by the Justice Department” will be helpful: […]"
— 2017 April 18, “DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FACT SHEET ON MS-13”, in United States Department of Justice, page 1:
"The Biden administration will designate a dangerous Venezuelan gang infiltrating the United States as a significant transnational criminal organization on Thursday, according to a senior administration official, who described the gang as an “emerging threat.”"
— 2024 July 11, Priscilla Alvarez, “Biden administration designates dangerous Venezuelan gang as a transnational criminal organization”, in CNN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The company operates in many countries, making it a ____ corporation with offices on every continent.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The company has become a large ____ corporation after opening several new offices in different countries this year today.