multinational firm

collocation in English

meaningsofmultinationalandfirm

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multinational
adjective
uk
/ˌmʌl.tiˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
us
/ˌmʌl.t̬iˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
involving several different countries, or (of a business) producing and selling goods in several ...
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firm
noun[C]
uk
/fɜːm/
us
/fɝːm/
a company offering a professional service, for example a company ...
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(Definition ofmultinationalandfirmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Today themultinationalfirmwill communicate with remote peoples in their own language.
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They always sold to a bigger firm or a national ormultinationalfirm.
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It does not necessarily follow that if one wishes to enter into a multidisciplinary partnership, one will be able to enter amultinationalfirm.
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They fall on a company, an individual or amultinationalfirm, but benefits are collective, public and cannot be quantified in the same way.
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A further point was made to me by the managing director of amultinationalfirm.
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When in college, she took up marketing management as her family desired her to work with a reputedmultinationalfirm.
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So biotechnology knowledge generation has to date largely been concentrated in a few large multinational firms.
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The tobacco industry has experienced relatively few organizational constraints in operating at the international level, as it is dominated by large multinational firms.
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The multinational firms that produce it should be observing that code, but are not.
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Multinational firms come in all shapes and sizes.
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This is true even in multinational firms with the same management standards.
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Small independent producers must be given special assistance and the multinational firms which possess banana plantations in several countries should not be eligible for assistance.
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Multinational firms will only change their behaviour when they are forced to pay heavily for their misdeeds.
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There will also be close co-operation to monitor the prudential position of major multinational firms.
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That is the dilemma under which the multinational firms and the militarists have to operate.
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We have an interest in ensuring that managers come to this country when their multinational firms come to invest.
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Those are units of either national or multinational firms placed in the regions.
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I admit that it is multinational firms which are carrying out the project.
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Are we sure that we will not be involved in slow decision-making in relation to the formidable international, multinational firms?
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That is the role of multinational firms.
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