| 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) |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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 |