FOREIGNER


Meaning of FOREIGNER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

anti

After they failed to find their intended victim, they embarked on an indiscriminate anti-foreigner rampage.

They were anti-foreigner , anti-regulation and anti-union.

other

No other foreigners are training at the moment.

With other foreigners they account for a quarter of trading.

People even from other Ridings were foreigners .

■ VERB

allow

No other country in the world allows foreigners to buy its land like this.

Individually and collectively, they refuse to allow us to be foreigners through our worst pain.

buy

No other country in the world allows foreigners to buy its land like this.

If exports are priced in pounds, they will now be cheaper in foreign currency terms for foreigners to buy .

sell

Some countries, though, prohibit certain firms from selling shares to foreigners .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A lot of foreigners work here illegally.

About 40 million foreigners visited the US last year.

Saleem felt that people were suspicious of him because he was a foreigner .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After nearly 8,000 reported attacks on foreigners since the start of 1992, it was the first big, violent public reaction.

Individually and collectively, they refuse to allow us to be foreigners through our worst pain.

More than once I looked, too, to see the foreigner .

She was a foreigner and already had more than enough to do inside her own organisation.

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