foreign country

collocation in English

meaningsofforeignandcountry

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withcountry.
foreign
adjective
uk
/ˈfɒr.ən/us
/ˈfɔːr.ən/
belonging or connected to a country that is not ...
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country
noun
uk
/ˈkʌn.tri/us
/ˈkʌn.tri/
an area of land that has its own government, ...
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(Definition offoreignandcountryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofforeign country

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Foreigncountryvariables are denoted with an asterisk.
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He died seven years later, and she was left childless and with few contacts in aforeigncountry.
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Despite the imposition of an international border, people continued to send their children to schools in what was now aforeigncountry.
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I was in aforeigncountryalone and frightened.
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Here the problem is that pollution directly affects theforeigncountry.
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The historical experience of late twentieth-century tourism is, in this context, a contrived confrontation with aforeigncountry.
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The results for theforeigncountry(the exporter of pollution-intensive goods) are also familiar and so are suppressed here.
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The effects of the shocks in theforeigncountryare similarly milder.
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The past is aforeigncountrywhose features are shaped by today's predilections, its strangeness domesticated by our own preservation of its vestiges.
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We still have to acknowledge, even if we cannot completely explain, the accumulation of individual transformations that have made many aspects of the past seem like aforeigncountry.
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In addition, the past has been given its own place on the margins of the inhabited and cultivated space, to be visited as aforeigncountry.
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We believe that being rude to the government of theforeigncountryyou come to and reside in is not what a civilized person is supposed to do.
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Imagine being transported, with all your intelligence and memories intact, into the body of a 12-month-old raised in aforeigncountry.
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Is the past aforeigncountry?
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If the supply-side effect dominates, there is a strong incentive for the home country to reduce its nominal interest rate and theforeigncountryto raise its nominal interest rate.
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The executive and theforeigncountryunderstand this in advance and realize that any proposed arrangement must survive this domestic test before it can be implemented.
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It is often easier and quicker to travel to aforeigncountrythan to travel within one's country, hence a dramatic increase in exchanges of all kinds between countries.
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