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| Domain | Definition |
Economics | The purchase of assets which are abroad. (references) |
Finance | The acquisition by a government or citizens of a country of assets abroad in the form of bank deposits, foreign government bills, government or industrial securities or titles to land, buildings and capital equipment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FOREIGN INVESTMENTSynonyms: Foreign corporations, investsments by, Investments by foreigners, Investments by multi-national firms, Investments in the nation by foreign corporations, Multinational corporations, Investments by. (additional references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Spain is open to foreign investment. (references) | |
Controls and barriers to foreign investment have been eliminated. (references) | ||
Foreign exchange issues are also a deterrent to foreign investment. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Ecuador | The law limits foreign investment in broadcast media. (references) |
Jordan | The bill reportedly was passed in order to encourage foreign investment. (references) | |
Latvia | In addition foreign investment may not exceed 20 percent of the capital in electronic media organizations. (references) | |
Economic History | Cape Verde | Openness to foreign investment. (references) |
Mauritius | Mauritius actively seeks foreign investment. (references) | |
Finland | Finland generally welcomes foreign investment. (references) | |
Political Economy | MEXICO | Mexico is open to most types of foreign investment. (references) |
JORDAN | The banking system remains open to foreign investment. (references) | |
Jamaica | All major political parties favor attracting foreign investment. (references) | |
Trade | Senegal | Currency convertibility has also attracted foreign investment and increased trade. (references) |
Venezuela | The old banking law, which became effective in 1994, opened the banking sector to foreign investment. (references) | |
Croatia | Opening of the banking sector to foreign investment is directly responsible for the progress achieved. (references) | |
Travel | Chad | Electricity: Local rates are among the highest in the world and this is a serious commercial handicap that reduces the profitability of many businesses and deters foreign investment. (references) |
Worker Rights | Vietnam | Approximately 500,000 union members work in the private sector, including enterprises with foreign investment. (references) |
Honduras | Industry leaders, in turn, contend that the obsolete and cumbersome Labor Code discourages foreign investment and requires significant amendment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "FOREIGN INVESTMENT": direct foreign investment. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "FOREIGN INVESTMENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 外資 , 外來投資 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | investeringer i udlandet (investments abroad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | investeringen in het buitenland (investments abroad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | investissement l'étranger. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Auslandsinvestitionen (investments abroad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | επενδύσεις στο εξωτερικό (investments abroad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | investimenti all'estero (investments abroad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oreignfay investmentay investimentos no estrangeiro (investments abroad), investimento estrangeiro. (various references) inversión extranjera, inversión en el extranjero (investments abroad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"FOREIGN INVESTMENT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: foreighn investment. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-g-i-i-m-n-n-n-o-r-s-t-t-v" | |
-4 letters: infringements, interventions. | |
-5 letters: environments, infringement, intersegment, intervention, reinventions, reinvestment, remoistening, sonneteering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Synonyms 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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