foreign direct investment | a joint venture between a foreign company and a United States company |
taste tasting | a kind of sensing, distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds, a wine tasting |
foreign direct investment | investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business) |
taste property | a property appreciated via the sense of taste |
tastebud taste bud gustatory organ | an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue |
taste cell gustatory cell | an epithelial cell in a taste bud that activates sensory fibers of the facial nerve or the glossopharyngeal nerve or the vagus nerve |
taste gustation sense of taste gustatory modality | the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth, his cold deprived him of his sense of taste |
taste taste sensation gustatory sensation taste perception gustatory perception | the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus, the candy left him with a bad taste, the melon had a delicious taste |
taste appreciation discernment perceptiveness | delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values), arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success, to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA | an act passed by Congress in to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, intended to increase United States counterintelligence, separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance |
foreign policy | a policy governing international relations |
taste | a brief experience of something, he got a taste of life on the wild side, she enjoyed her brief taste of independence |
preference penchant predilection taste | a strong liking, my own preference is for good literature, the Irish have a penchant for blarney |
acquired taste | a preference that is only acquired after considerable experience, martinis are an acquired taste |
taste mouthful | a small amount eaten or drunk, take a taste--you'll like it |
Foreign Office | the government department in charge of foreign relations |
French Foreign Office Quai d'Orsay | the French department in charge of foreign affairs, referred to familiarly by its address in Paris |
Foreign Service | the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world |
foreign country | any state of which one is not a citizen, working in a foreign country takes a bit of getting used to |
Veterans of Foreign Wars VFW | an organization of United States war veterans |
foreign legion | a military unit composed of foreign volunteers who serve the state |
French Foreign Legion | a former foreign legion in the French army that was used for military duties outside of France |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court F.I.S.C. | a secret federal court created in by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies |
Foreign Intelligence Service Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki SVR | Russia's intelligence service responsible for foreign operations, intelligence-gathering and analysis, and the exchange of intelligence information, collaborates with other countries to oppose proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and organized crime |
terrorist organization terrorist group foreign terrorist organization FTO | a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals |
legation foreign mission | a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister |
mission missionary post missionary station foreign mission | an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work |
foreign agent | a spy for a foreign country |
foreign correspondent | a journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a foreign country for publication or broadcast |
foreign minister secretary of state | a government minister for foreign relations |
taster taste tester taste-tester sampler | someone who samples food or drink for its quality |
trend-setter taste-maker fashion arbiter | someone who popularizes a new fashion |
foreign aid | aid (such as economic or military assistance) provided to one nation by another |
foreign bill foreign draft | a bill of exchange that is drawn in one country and made payable in another |
foreign exchange | the system by which one currency is exchanged for another, enables international transactions to take place |
taste | experience briefly, The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died |
sample try try out taste | take a sample of, Try these new crackers, Sample the regional dishes |
taste | perceive by the sense of taste, Can you taste the garlic? |
taste | distinguish flavors, We tasted wines last night |
taste savor savour | have flavor, taste of something |
smack taste c | have a distinctive or characteristic taste, This tastes of nutmeg |
change taste | alter the flavor of |
in good taste(p) | satisfying generally accepted social or esthetic standards |
foreign strange | relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world, foreign nations, a foreign accent, on business in a foreign city |
foreign-born nonnative | of persons born in another area or country than that lived in, our large nonnative population |
foreign | of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own), foreign trade, a foreign office |
alien foreign | not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something, an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism, the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper, jealousy is foreign to her nature |
extraneous foreign | not belonging to that in which it is contained, introduced from an outside source, water free of extraneous matter, foreign particles in milk |