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Definition of transnational
: extending or going beyond national boundaries transnational corporations
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Examples of transnational in a Sentence
global warming is a transnational problem that requires a transnational solution
Recent Examples of transnational from the Web
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However, no single country or profession can rely solely upon its own capability to address the problem of transnational and organized crimes.
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Some such transnational sources of influence are indirect and social, as when openly LGBT people are increasingly visible in the media.
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Blackness has long been a transnational project, a conversation that transverses and troubles national boundaries.
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Though several of the conference’s Thursday sessions on economics were open to the news media, almost all of Friday’s meetings — which concentrated on transnational criminal gangs that smuggle drugs, guns and people — were closed.
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Each is under assault from a combination of poverty, ruthless gangs, and transnational crime.
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MS-13 has been in the crosshairs of federal law enforcement since at least 2012 when the group was designated a transnational criminal organization and subjected to financial sanctions by the Treasury Department.
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Singaporean Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen said at least 31 regional groups have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and there was evidence of growing transnational cooperation between them.
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There’s a transnational influence also present that is not necessarily present in traditional dandyism.
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First Known Use of transnational
1921
TRANSNATIONAL Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of transnational for English Language Learners
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: operating in or involving more than one country
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