I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a multinational company (= with offices in many countries )
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Within ten years the business grew into a huge multinational company.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
company
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A medical officer of a large multinational company once described people as being like oil rigs.
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Here I had these multinational companies fighting over me.
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These are therefore the key markets for most multinational companies .
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The government therefore turned to multinational companies as potential suitors for Rover.
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It also is a proof of concept, that a large, multinational company would rely on a reduced-complexity computing device.
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And if a multinational company could be run like this then why not governments, why not the world?
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Government departments and multinational companies , for example, are dispersed over wide areas.
corporation
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One is the network of the world market and the other is the multinational corporations that operate plants worldwide.
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These are the systems that handle accounting at multinational corporations , airline reservations, insurance and banking transactions and stock trades.
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The most relevant feature is the high proportion of multinational corporations in Britain.
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Are we sovereign in defence, in our dealings with multinational corporations or in any significant matter?
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Large multinational corporations produce and acquire vast volumes of information in the course of their business.
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The first day of the conference is to be devoted to corporate tax issues affecting national and multinational corporations .
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The growth of multinational corporations provided a second spur to Eurocurrency business.
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The main providers of such funds are overseas banks, multinational corporations and institutional investors.
firm
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Tourists shun regions with high malaria, as do multinational firms choosing the location of foreign investments.
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We will in fact use such models in our analysis of multinational firms in chapters 12 and 13.
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Tax deficient California's treatment of multinational firms threatens to provoke a global tax war.
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With multinational firms it is hard to say where profits are actually earned.
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The users of Eurocurrency are multinational firms , central banks and governments and other public authorities.
force
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Aircraft dropped 100,000 leaflets on Mogadishu, warning that anyone pointing a weapon at members of the multinational force would be shot.
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S.-led multinational force of 6, 000.
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It was the worst fighting since the multinational force landed in December to end anarchy.
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On the Gulf crisis, Baker urged the deployment of a token Soviet military contingent as part of the multinational force .
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Financial assistance to the multinational force was seen in this light.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Multinational companies have often been accused of employing cheap labour in developing countries.
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a multinational force sponsored by the UN
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a multinational manufacturer
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The government is attempting to stimulate the economy by attracting multinational corporations.
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The recording business is now controlled by multinational corporations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Crucially, in an era of multinational sports commerce, it also travelled better abroad.
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However, they have been very active in the large multinational textile and assembly factories which employ women almost exclusively.
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The multinational drug companies are often exploiting that knowledge in their constant search for new and more profitable drugs.
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These are therefore the key markets for most multinational companies.
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They are adept at arranging huge loans, underwriting stock offerings and putting together multinational mergers.
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With the multinational empires torn apart, are the multinational nations next?
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
foreign
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Evans concluded that in some developing countries, the foreign multinationals might be a help and not a hindrance to the state.
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Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government.
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The elite - bureaucrats as well as politicians - needed, it was asserted, alliances with local business and foreign multinationals .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a Connecticut-based multinational that produces chemicals
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Several multinationals were fined for environmental pollution.
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the power of the big multinationals
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government.
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Moreover, the leading multinationals have been able to gain critical efficiencies in financing the whole system.
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The multinationals that stand to benefit were deeply involved in the negotiations to establish Gats.