foreign direct investment | a joint venture between a foreign company and a United States company |
foreign direct investment | investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business) |
worker | sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae |
worker bee | sterile bee specialized to collect food and maintain the hive |
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 |
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 |
worker | a person who works at a specific occupation, he is a good worker |
actor doer worker | a person who acts and gets things done, he's a principal actor in this affair, when you want something done get a doer, he's a miracle worker |
almoner medical social worker | an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients |
brainworker brain-worker | someone whose profession involves using his head to solve problems |
civil rights leader civil rights worker civil rights activist | a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups |
colleague co-worker fellow worker workfellow | an associate that one works with |
construction worker hard hat | a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc. |
farmhand fieldhand field hand farm worker | a hired hand on a farm |
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 |
garmentmaker garment-worker garment worker | a person who makes garments |
goldsmith goldworker gold-worker | an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold |
guest worker guestworker | a person with temporary permission to work in another country, a Moroccan guestworker in Canada was accused of aiding terrorists |
line worker | an employee who works on an assembly line |
mill-hand factory worker | a workman in a mill or factory |
miracle man miracle worker | a person who claims or is alleged to perform miracles |
power worker power-station worker | a worker at a power station |
proletarian prole worker | a member of the working class (not necessarily employed), workers of the world--unite! |
research worker researcher investigator | a scientist who devotes himself to doing research |
seasonal worker seasonal | a worker who finds employment only in certain seasons |
silversmith silverworker silver-worker | someone who makes or repairs articles of silver |
skilled worker trained worker skilled workman | a worker who has acquired special skills |
slave striver hard worker | someone who works as hard as a slave |
social worker caseworker welfare worker | someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged) |
stevedore loader longshoreman docker dockhand dock worker dockworker dock-walloper lumper | a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port |
temp temporary temporary worker | a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis |
volunteer unpaid worker | a person who performs voluntary work |
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 |
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 |