multinationalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From multi- +‎ national.

発音

• 韻: -æʃənəl

形容詞

multinational (not comparable)

1. Of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country).
   • 2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 17 June 2022:

     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.

2. (of a business organization) Operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries (especially more than two).
   • 1970, Martyn, Howe, “Foreward”, in Multinational Business Management‎, Rowman & Littlefield (imprint Lexington Books), →ISBN:

     By operating within many nations, but ouside them at the same time, multinational firms create possibilities of change even in the world political structure

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

     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."

派生語

名詞

multinational (plural multinationals)

1. A multinational company.
   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8841, archived from the original on 27 October 2020, page 68:

     The G8 leaders also called on multinationals to make a full disclosure to the taxman over how much tax they pay in different countries.