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▪ I. foreign, a. and n.|ˈfɒrɪn|
Forms: 3, 5–6 foren(e, 3—4, 6–7, 9 forein(e, -eyn(e, 4, 6–8 for(r)ain(e, 5–6 -ayn(e, 4–6 forreyn(e, 5–7 -ayne, 6–8 forr-en, -ei(g)ne, -aign(e, (7 foran, furraine), 6– foreign.
[a. OF. forain:—popular L. type *forānus, f. forās, for-īs: see for- prefix3.
Med.L. had forāneus (Sp. foraneo) on the analogy of extrāneus; also forinsecus adj. (f. class. L. forinsecus adv.), which in Eng. Law Latin is the usual equivalent of foreign.]
A. adj.
†1.
a. Out of doors; outside. a chamber foreign: a privy (cf. foreign n.). foreign darkness = ‘outer darkness’. Obs.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 310 In to a chambre forene þe gadelyng gan wende. c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. metr. ii. 3 (Camb. MS.) Mintinge to goon in to foreine derknesses. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems 234 This is the name that chaceth away the clips Of foreyn dirkenesse.
†b. Concerned with matters at a distance from home; outside; opposed to domestic. Obs.
1605in Archæologia (1800) XIII. 316 [The steward] is to see into all offices, soe well forraine, as at home. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. xiii. §1 (1622) 348 By writing, we may giue direction for our foraine Businesses, though we stay at home; and for our domestical, though we be abroad.
†c. nonce-use. ? Excluded, kept away (from court, or from employment in affairs).
The sense is doubtful: it may be ‘resident abroad’ (cf. 7), or ‘outside the circle of one's intimate friends’ (cf. 2 b).
1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. ii. 129 You enuide him; And fearing he would rise..Kept him a forraigne man still.
2. a. Belonging to other persons or things; not one's own; = L. alienus. Now rare.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. pr. iv. 9 (Camb. MS.) For nede of foreyne moneye [mistranslation of æris alieni necessitate, ‘through pressure of debt’]. Ibid. ii. pr. v. 32 (Camb. MS.) Fortune ne shal neuer makyn þat swyche thynges ben thyne, þat nature of thinges hath maked foreyne fro the. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Church Porch lxi, Keep all thy native good, and naturalize All forrain of that name; but scorn their ill. 1733Pope Ess. Man iii. 21 Nothing is foreign; parts relate to whole. 1851Hussey Papal Power i. 35 The interference of Bishops in foreign Sees.
†b. Not of one's household or family. Obs.
1604Shakes. Oth. iv. iii 89 They..powre our Treasures into forraigne laps. 1608― Per. iv. i. 34, I loue the king your father..with more then forraine heart.
†c. Of possessions, expenses: Other than personal. Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xviii. (Arb.) 53 Quick cattel being the first property of any forreine possession. I say forreine, because alway men claimed property in their apparell and armour, and other like things made by their owne..industry. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. II. ii. ii. 260 To have their foreign expences after the rate of 100l. a year.
3. Proceeding from other persons or things.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. pr. iii. 55 (Camb. MS.) Than..hath a man nede to seken hym foreyne helpe by whyche he may deffende hys moneye? 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 16 The truthe is then set free from all douting, when not vpholden by forayne aides it self alone sufficeth to susteine it self. 1659Hammond On Ps. Pref. §3. 2 For this..we must appeal to forreign testimonies. 1712Blackmore Creation i. 395 Machines..Move by a foreign impulse, not their own. 1834M. Somerville Connect. Phys. Sc. x. (1849) 81 If the system be not deranged by a foreign cause.
4. Alien in character; not related to or concerned with the matter under consideration; irrelevant, dissimilar, inappropriate. Now only const. from, to.
1393Gower Conf. I. 279 A vice foreine fro the lawe. 1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 103 The Lord of the Copyhold is not to be taxed for the Soil of the Copyhold: for although he might come to it by forfeiture committed, yet that is a forain possibility. 1665Glanvill Scepsis Sci. 64 Our Author's sense and interpretation seems to me..forraign, arbitrary, and unnatural. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 118 This is a matter forreign to my Judicature. 1701Swift Sacramental Test Wks. 1755 II. i. 128 This design is not so foreign from some people's thoughts. 1724A. Collins Gr. Chr. Relig. 193 To tell the woman Ye worship ye know not what relates..to a matter wholly foreign. 1735Berkeley Def. Free-think. in Math. §42 All you have been saying..is quite foreign to the argument. 1756Burke Subl. & B. iii. vi, To leave these foreign examples; if beauty in our own species was annexed to use, men would be much more lovely than women. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Grace bef. Meat, [The diet] least stimulative to appetite, leaves the mind most free for foreign considerations. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xix, However foreign to his nature and disposition. 1873Helps Anim. & Mast. i. (1875) 16 A purpose foreign from his pursuits.
5. Introduced from outside; not belonging to the place in which it is found; esp. in Surgical use, of substances embedded in tissues of the body. spec. in phr. foreign body.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. iii. (1651) 262 Excluding forrain aire and winds. 1626Bacon Sylva §334 A Forreign Spirit, stronger and more eager than the Spirit of the Body. 1664Power Exp. Philos. ii. 133 Yet in its dilation will admit of no aether or forrain Substance to enter the pores thereof. 1767Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 123, I discovered, by the probe, this foreign body. 1770Priestley in Phil. Trans. LX. 204 Part of the electric matter natural to the body must be repelled, to make room for the foreign electricity. 1875Lyell's Princ. Geol. I. ii. xv. 331 A hard chlorite rock equally foreign to the immediate neighbourhood. 1898Daily News 30 Nov. 8/1 The presence of the ‘foreign body’—a disguising euphemism for half an ounce..of lead entering a man at great velocity. 1961Brit. Med. Dict. 577/1 Foreign body, a substance present in any part of the body in which normally it is not found, and usually of external origin. 1964S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxvi. 375 Foreign bodies,..particles of coal dust, emery, steel, etc.—may pitch upon the conjunctiva or..cornea.
6. a. Situated outside an estate, manor, district, parish, province, etc.
[1292Britton iii. viii. §5 Vivers foreyns.] 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 7 Dwelling in a foren Shire. 1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 4 Preamb., Outlawries had ageynst theym in forreyn Counties. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. 3 b, It is to be inquered of forren pastures that is comyn..what the lorde may haue in the same. 1676Degge Parson's Counsellor ii. v. 166 To be imployed in a Forrain Parish. 1885E. B. Ivatts Railw. Managem. 547 To the employees of railway ‘A’ all other railways in respect to traffic are ‘foreign’.
b. Belonging to or coming from another district, county, society, etc.
c1460in Eng. Gilds (1870) 317 Ye schall couer no foren stranger yn no wys under yor franches. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 437 The markethouse..was buylded for the free⁓sale of the foreyn Boocher, and of the foreyn Fishmonger. c1638Order Priv. Counc. in Penkethman Artach. H ij b, The forreigne Bakers which bring their Bread to be sold in the market of any Citie. 1891Daily News 18 Sept. 3/3 There has been a great demand for foreign labour in Kent. 1895Guardian 6 Mar. 363/3 The foreign examiners [at Durham] are the Regius Professor of Hebrew, Oxford, and the Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Cambridge.
†c. ? Dealing with matters outside (the manor).
1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4465/6 In the Hands of the foreign Bailiff of Dudley.
7. Situated outside the country; not in one's own land.
In this and the following senses, the word is in British use not applied to parts of the United Kingdom, nor, ordinarily, to (former) colonies chiefly inhabited by English-speaking people. In the U.S. the designations of foreign corporation, foreign port, are sometimes applied to those belonging to other States of the Union.
1393Gower Conf. II. 160 [Isles] that fro the lond forein Leie open to the wynd al plein. Ibid. III. 185 A place, Which is forein out in an ile. c1400Mandeville (1839) xvii. 183 Whan men gon beȝonde tho iourneyes, toward Ynde and to the foreyn Yles. c1450Merlin 577 Kynge Alein of the forayn londes. 1524Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII, c. 1 Preamb., The said outwarde and foren regions. 1611Heywood Gold. Age i. Wks. 1874 III. 9 Whil'st I in forreigne Kingdomes search my Fate. 1700Wallis in Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) I. 313 In some forain universities. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 385 In some foreign clime which is..beyond our ken. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. xxxviii. 63 They usually talk of corporations belonging to other States as ‘foreign’.
8. a. Pertaining to, characteristic of, or derived from another country or nation; not domestic or native. foreign legion: see legion 1 b.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 29, I am but foreyn in this cuntre. 1535in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. II. 325 No more jurisdiction wth in this realme than anie oodre foreyne bisshoppe. 1579Fenton Guicciard. (1618) 7 To build his suretie vpon forreine strength, seeing he had no confidence in his owne forces. 1611Heywood Gold. Age i. Wks. 1874 III. 8 If my owne land proue thus vnnaturall I'le purchase forraine aid. 1655H. Vaughan Silex Scint. i. Pref. (1858) 5 Plentifully furnished with various Foraign Vanities. 1676Hobbes Iliad Pref. (1686) 2 Forein words. 1709Steele Tatler No. 49 ⁋9 The Foreign Ministers residing at the Hague. 1771Junius Lett. lix. 308 A foreign force..actually landed upon our coast. 1832Lewis Use & Ab. Pol. Terms iii. 32 The foreign and native commodity. 1849Hare Serm. II. 435 The plan sprang up in the heart of a forein king. 1875H. James R. Hudson iv. 140 She spoke with a vague foreign accent.
b. transf. Unfamiliar, strange.
1881Illingworth Serm. in Coll. Chapel 74 Such language may be a little foreign, but the experience is universal.
c. foreign devil [tr. Chin. yang kuei-tzu (also, formerly, fan kuei(-tzu), and other regional forms)]: a term of contempt for a foreigner (esp. a European) in China; also transf.
[1842China as it Was viii. 51 Be it remarked, that the term Fan-Qui, signifying literally ‘barbarian wanderer’, or ‘outlandish demon’ is applied invariably by the subjects of the ‘Celestial Empire’ to all foreigners.] 1860Englishman in China 237 All rush to their doors, and press to see the ‘Fan Qui’, or foreign devils; though I must here add that but once was that name applied to us, and really they were all of them most civil. 1889G. B. Shaw Fabian Ess. Socialism 174 A Frenchman or Scotchman was a natural enemy: a Muscovite was a foreign devil. 1926A. Huxley Jesting Pilate iii. 248 The trees might just be saying, ‘Foreign Devil, Foreign Devil’, and repeating it monotonously, mile after mile. 1937E. Snow Red Star over China i. iv. 43 It was the perfect setting for the blotting-out of a too inquisitive foreign devil. 1965P. Ordway Night of Reckoning (1967) ii. 39 Most of us foreign devils [in Spain] found seasonal rentals a very necessary source of additional income. 1969V. G. Kiernan Lords of Human Kind v. 167 Against these new barbarians China was building a new Great Wall, of hatred. Wherever they went they were saluted with cries of ‘foreign devil’.
9. Carried on or taking place abroad, into or with other countries. spec. opp. inland, as foreign bill, foreign exchange (see exchange n. 4 and quots.).
1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI (an. 32) 167 When foren warre and outward battailes, were brought to an ende. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 176 To take on mee a forreigne voyage. 1632Sanderson Serm. 475 A forraigne Invasion abroad. 1653Walton Angler i. 32 A man whose forraign imployments in the service of this Nation, and [etc.]. 1691[see exchange n. 4]. 1810C. James Milit. Dict. (ed. 3), Foreign Service..any service done out of the limits of Great Britain, Ireland..etc. 1840H. Malcom Trav. 34/1 The foreign trade is extinct. 1849[see inland a. 2]. 1940Manch. Guardian Weekly 5 Jan. 3 Behind all these questions of supply lie the inexorable limitations of foreign exchange and shipping space. 1948G. Crowther Outl. Money (ed. 2) vii. 202 (heading) The Foreign Exchanges. Ibid. 210 The foreign exchange market was originally the ‘foreign-bills-of-exchange market’. It was the place where bills payable in New York, Shanghai, Buenos Aires and half a hundred other places could be bought. 1951J. R. Winton Dict. Econ. Terms (ed. 3) 38 Foreign exchange, strictly, this term denotes the transaction of exchanging one currency for another but, in practice, it is often used to refer to actual currency, e.g. foreign currency notes or the means of obtaining such through travellers' cheques or letters of credit. 1971Daily Tel. 10 May 14/2 The currency of any other country is ‘foreign exchange’.
10. Dealing with matters concerning other countries. Foreign Office: the department of the ‘Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs’; the building in which the business of this department is carried on. Also, intended for use in transactions or correspondence with other countries, as in foreign bill (see quot. 1767), foreign letter-paper. Also in Journalism.
1611Coryat Crudities Epist. Dedic., The Observations of my trauels..I hope..will be very delectable to every Reader that loueth to heare of forraine affaires. 1623J. Chamberlain Let. 21 Nov. (1939) II. 527 The selected commissioners for forain affaires sit much. 1655Sir E. Nicholas in N. Papers (Camden) II. 241 Other furraine newes I heare not. 1659Marvell Corr. Wks. 1872–5 II. 12 John Milton, Esqire, Secretarye for the Forrain affaires. 1682J. Scarlett Exchanges 15 So are usually all Forreign Bills. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman Introd. (1841) I. 2 Such as carry on foreign correspondences. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. xxx. 467 These bills [of exchange] are either foreign, or inland foreign, when drawn by a merchant residing abroad upon his correspondent in England or vice versa. 1848Thackeray Pendennis I. xxx, Look! here comes the Foreign Express galloping in. Ibid., Mr. Doolan..is foreign sub⁓editor, and sees the mail on the newspaper sheet before he goes to his own. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Result Wks. (Bohn) II. 133 The foreign policy of England. 1859Sat. Rev. VIII. 62/2 The army and the Foreign Office have, to a certain extent, escaped the constitutionalizing process. 1870Nation (N.Y.) 27 Jan. 54/2 There is..a column of telegrams from Europe in every issue of the daily papers, which editors are accustomed to refer to as furnishing the latest ‘foreign intelligence’. 1877Harper's Mag. Dec. 53/2 Foreign correspondence in the hands of a foreign editor. 1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound 113 No contribution to exceed six pages of foreign note paper. 1959C. Ogburn Marauders (1960) ii. 47 A reporter and a writer on the foreign desk of The Chicago Daily News. 1967[see city page s.v. city 9]. 1971Guardian 22 July 11/8 Foreign correspondents during the previous days used, perforce, comments from the angry hippies.
11. Law. foreign apposer, foreign attachment (see the ns.); foreign answer, foreign matter, foreign plea, foreign service (see quots. 1607). † foreign intent: a constructive sense not implied in the wording of the instrument to be interpreted; opposed to common intent.
1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 2 Of feyned and untrew Foreyn pleyes triable in foreyn Countes. 1607Cowell Interpr. s.v., Forein aunswer..such an answer, as is not triable in the countie where it is made. [With a reference to Act 15 Hen. VI, c. 5, which reads: Jesques au temps que chescun des ditz foreins severalx responses soit trie.] 1607Cowell Interpr., Forein Apposer (forinsecarum oppositor). Ibid., Forein attachment (attachiamentum forinsecum). Ibid., Forein mater..mater triable in another countie. Ibid., Forein-plea..a refusal of the Iudge as incompetent, because the mater in hand was not within his precincts. Ibid., Forein seruice..such service, whereby a meane Lord holdeth ouer of another, without the compasse of his owne fee..or else that which a tenant performeth..out of the fee. a1626Bacon Max. & Uses Com. Law x. (1636) 43 The graunts of a common person..shall be extended as well to a forrein intent as to a common intent. 1685Keble King's Bench Rep. II. 132 The Defendant pleads a forein attachment in London of 50 li. 1800Durnford & East Cases King's Bench VIII. 417 A foreign attachment in the Mayor's court at the suit of the plaintiff.
¶12. † Used to translate L. forensis: Made in open court, public.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. pr. iii. 55 (Camb. MS.) For whennes comyn elles alle thyse foreyne compleyntes.
13. quasi-adv. (to fit, go, sail, etc.) foreign, i.e. for foreign parts. (Naut. colloq.)
1829Marryat F. Mildmay v, We were ordered to fit foreign. 1840― Poor Jack xiii, In consequence of our being about to sail foreign. 1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & W. xix, But the captain is going foreign, is he not?
14. Comb. Chiefly locative and parasynthetic, as foreign-built, foreign-foliaged, foreign-going, foreign-looking, foreign-made, foreign-manned, † foreign-nationed, foreign-owned (= owned by a foreigner, of foreign ownership), foreign-wrought, etc. adjs.. Also foreign aid [aid n. 3 c], foreign-born (= born abroad), foreign-language attrib.
1958*Foreign-aid [see aid n. 3 c]. 1968B. Turner Circle of Squares viii. 51 The foreign aid we have lashed out so lavishly. 1969New Yorker 31 May 68/3 Because foreign-aid resources have been so limited, Indonesia's economic-development efforts..have been confined largely to food production.
1856J. P. Hambleton H. A. Wise 57 Both the Alien and Sedition laws were intended for the oppression of *foreign born citizens. 1940J. H. Jagger English in Future 124 Native-born with one parent foreign-born. 1964P. F. Anson Bishops at Large ix. 440 A foreign-born Mexican citizen.
1678in Marvell Growth Popery 64 The Agatha, *Foreign built, 250 Tuns.
1898Westm. Gaz. 16 June 1/3 A *foreign-controlled department of public works.
1898Daily News 5 Nov. 6/3 The commander of the *foreign drilled troops.
1890Boldrewood Col. Reform. (1891) 54 The vast *foreign-foliaged, primeval forests.
1863H. Cox Instit. iii. v. 658 Masters and mates of *foreign-going vessels.
1905Daily Chron. 22 Nov. 6/3 Our corn is part home-grown and part *foreign-grown.
1933Bloomfield Lang. iii. 54 The factor of *foreign-language speaking does not lend itself to measurement. 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Aug. 514/3 The kind of Americans of foreign-language origin who are members of the population of the United States. 1959Encounter Dec. 56/2 The BBC set new standards for foreign-language broadcasts. 1971Incorporated Linguist X. 39/1 No one would claim that British foreign-language policy towards Europe is or should be principally determined by the extent to which English is known and used in Europe.
1830Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. (1863) 213 A dark, sallow, *foreign-looking personage.
1895Daily News 15 June 5/4 *Foreign-made machinery.
1599R. Linche Fount. Anc. Fict. H j b, The vncertaine steps of *forren-nationed pilgrimes.
1878A. L. Perry Elem. Pol. Econ. 556 American-built but *foreign-owned ships.
1906Daily Chron. 13 Aug. 4/7 The *foreign-trained fitters and machinists.
1513More in Grafton Chron. (1568) II. 808 Lawes..agaynst..*forreign wrought wares.
B. quasi-n. and n.
†1.
a. = foreigner 1. Also, a foreign vessel. Obs.
1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 322 Þe tounes, þe countes, þe foreyns alle aboute, To þe kyng felle on knes. 1429Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 143 Outrayeng foreyns that cam from Babilon. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 197 Of these false forrains renneth so great a bande Vnto our shippes, that [etc.]. 1612Brerewood Lang. & Relig. iii. 19 Ambassages..or whatsoever other business of the provincials, or forraigns. 1643Decl. Lords & Com., Reb. Ireland 50 They took yesterday a Forrain laden with deales.
†b. One not a citizen, or more particularly not a member of the guild, a stranger, an outsider.
c1350in Eng. Gilds (1870) 361 Ȝef a foreyne empledy þe teþynge. 1487in Ann. Barber-Surg. Lond. (1890) 581 Ye shall not admytt eny foren to be of this misterie. 1540R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. (1592) N vj, For citicens favour more one another, than they do forrains.
†2. Short for chambre foreine (see A. 1). Obs.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 7436 Ful foule ys þat forreyne Þat ys comoun for al certeyne. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1962 Ariadne, The tour..Was ioyning in the walle to a foreyne. 1505in Gage Thingoe Hundred 140 To be wrought with calion and breke, with foreyns and other necessaries. 1570Levins Manip. 201/8 A Forayne, forica.
3. a. That part of a town which lies outside the borough or the parish proper. Now local.
1668Plot Staffordsh. viii. §82. 314 All the Villages and Hamlets belonging thereunto [Walsall]..which they call the forraigne. 1782Nash Worcestersh. II. 39 The inhabitants of the foreign of Kidderminster, so called to distinguish them from the inhabitants of the borough. 1856Glew Walsall 3 The parish is in two townships, called the Borough and Foreign. 1875Sussex Gloss. s.v. Foreigner, At Rye..that part of the parish which lies out of the boundary of the corporation, is called the Foreign of Rye.
b. pl. The outer court of a monastery; also, the space immediately outside the monastic precincts. Obs., but surviving as proper name in various places where monasteries existed.
1668Wilkes Plan Canterbury cited in Willis Monast. Canterb. (1869) 152 Y⊇ forrins. 1799Hasted Kent IV. 575 The space of ground without or foreign to it [the jurisdiction of the church] called the Foreigns, now vulgarly the Follings. 1872Gloss. Eccl. Terms (ed. Shipley), Foreign Court..Also called Foreigns.
4. a. in foreign: abroad.
c1618Fletcher Q. Corinth iii. i, One that hath As people say in forraigne pleasur'd him.
b. ellipt. for foreign language, foreign parts, foreign service, etc.
1906R. Brooke Let. 3 Feb. (1968) 39 The Calendar has appeared. There are about eight foreigns [sc. matches against teams from other schools]. 1907A. Quiller-Couch Major Vigoureux ix. 90, I was thinking that—she being from foreign and the Islands the first place she've touched at—I might pick up a bravish order in the way of fresh milk and eggs. 1955G. Freeman Liberty Man i. iii. 49 ‘On leave, Jack?’ ‘Yeah... Just back from foreign.’ 1962Times 13 Feb. 12/6, I had tried to explain I'd just arrived from ‘foreign’ [sc. foreign service]. 1971P. O'Donnell Impossible Virgin v. 103 He was a foreigner, and he babbled in foreign.
Hence ˈforeignly adv.; ˈforeignness.
1611Cotgr., Peregrinité..forrainenesse. 1661Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 249 The forreignness and obscurity of some texts. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. i. v. 32 His English had little foreignness except its fluency. 1880J. Caird Philos. Relig. vi. 169 When a being or object reveals itself to feeling, it, so to speak, loses any vestige of foreignness or estrangement. 1880G. Meredith Trag. Com. ix. 169 He rose out of his amazement..foreignly beholding himself.
▸ foreign direct investment n. Econ. investment by a company in a country other than that in which the company is based; an instance of this; (also) the total amount of investment in any one country by companies from abroad; abbreviated FDI; cf. foreign portfolio investment n. at Additions.
1936Amer. Econ. Rev. 26 328 The author has scanned the entire field of *foreign direct investments with the view to ascertaining whether or not these have led to international friction. 1941L. Rasminksy in J. F. Parkinson Canad. War Econ. 91 The value of foreign direct investment in Canada, being defined as investment effective control of which is exercised in one external country. 2002Wall St. Jrnl. 14 Oct. r4/3 The result is that renewed interest in Russia has yet to translate into big inflows of foreign direct investment.
▸ foreign portfolio investment n. Econ. portfolio investment in overseas companies, without taking a controlling interest; cf. foreign direct investment n. at Additions.
1951Far Eastern Surv. 20 85/1 Consider, for example, the case of *foreign portfolio investment. 2003Business Day (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 11 Feb. 8 There is a notion that foreign portfolio investment—in equities, bonds and money market instruments—is bad as it is volatile, but foreign direct investment (defined rather artificially as a share of 10% or more) is good.
▪ II. † foˈreign, v. Obs.—0
[f. prec.]
(See quot.)
1598Florio, Esternare, to alienate, estrange, forraine. |