单词 | multinationalism |
释义 | multinationalismn. 1. a. The presence, involvement, or partnership of many countries or nationalities. rare. ΚΠ 1944 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 232 28/2 It is the solution of the nationality question that gives Soviet nationalism its unique flavor. Whether it is called ‘multinationalism’ or ‘supernationalism’, it differs so blatantly from czarist or western nationalism. 1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media xxxiii. 353 Multi-nationalisms had long deprived Europe of its economic unity. The Common Market came to it only with the Second War. b. South African. An apartheid policy which regarded the population of South Africa as a number of distinct ‘nations’ which should eventually be geographically and politically separated from each other. Cf. separate development n. at separate adj. 3g. Now historical. ΚΠ 1971 Daily Disp. (East London, S. Afr.) 16 Oct. 8 They call separate development multi-nationalism or separate freedoms. 1973 Drum (Johannesburg) 8 May 14 We want non-racial sport at all levels. We reject multinationalism because it maintains the racial status quo in South African sport. 1974 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 1 July 12 To prate about multinationalism in sport will not suffice. 2. Business. The practice or policy of operating in several or many countries. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > operation in many countries globalization1972 multinationalism1972 1972 Listener 18 May 652/2 Yours is a multinational group. What are the prospects for multinationalism? a1996 Transport (BNC) 9 The refusal to allow ‘globalisation’ or multinationalism of the carrier US Air through British Airways participation on home ground clearly demonstrates the..fundamental self-interest of liberalisation arguments. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1944 |
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