Definition of transnational
:extending or going beyond national boundaries
- transnational corporations
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global warming is a transnational problem that requires a transnational solution
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UAW Secretary-Treasurer Gary Casteel also is in charge of the union's transnational department, making him the highest-level UAW official with direct involvement in the Nissan campaign.
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On Thursday, Sessions traveled to El Salvador to highlight his work to counter the violent transnational street gang MS-13.
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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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The Department must be in a position to use all laws available to combat the transnational drug organizations and dangerous drug traffickers who threaten American lives.
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First Known Use of transnational
1921
transnational Synonyms
Synonyms
foreign, multinational, internationalRelated Words
intercontinental, transcontinentalNear Antonyms
domestic, internal, nationalTRANSNATIONAL 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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