foreign Englisch Deutsch:
foreign Definition:
- Foreign may refer to:
| Foreign (a.) Outside |
| Foreign (a.) Not native or belonging to a certain country |
| Foreign (a.) Remote |
| Foreign (a.) Held at a distance |
| 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 |
foreign Synonyme:
| foreign accidental adventitious alien apart barbarian barbaric barbarous curious detached disconnected discrete disjunct disrelated dissociated distant distasteful exotic exterior external exterrestrial exterritorial extragalactic extralateral extraliminal extramundane extramural extraneous extraorganismal extrapolar extraprovincial extrasolar extraterrestrial extraterritorial extratribal extrinsic foreign-born immaterial impersonal impertinent imported inapplicable inapposite inappropriate incommensurable incomparable incompatible incongruous inconsistent inconsonant independent insular intrusive irrelative isolated nonsubjective objective obnoxious odd other outland outlandish outlying outside outward overseas peculiar remote removed repellent repugnant segregate separate separated strange tramontane transalpine transatlantic transpacific ulterior unaffiliated unallied unassimilable unassociated unconnected unearthly unfamiliar unknown unrelatable unrelated |
| foreign affairs Eisenhower Doctrine Monroe Doctrine Nixon Doctrine Truman Doctrine appeasement balance of power brinkmanship coexistence colonialism compromise containment detente deterrence diplomacy diplomatic diplomatics dollar diplomacy dollar imperialism expansionism foreign policy good-neighbor policy imperialism internationalism isolationism manifest destiny militarism nationalism neocolonialism neutralism nonresistance open door open-door policy peace offensive peaceful coexistence preparedness shirt-sleeve diplomacy shuttle diplomacy spheres of influence the big stick tough policy world politics |
| foreign policy Eisenhower Doctrine Monroe Doctrine Nixon Doctrine Truman Doctrine appeasement balance of power brinkmanship coexistence colonialism compromise containment detente deterrence diplomacy diplomatic diplomatics dollar diplomacy dollar imperialism expansionism foreign affairs good-neighbor policy imperialism internationalism isolationism manifest destiny militarism nationalism neocolonialism neutralism nonresistance open door open-door policy peace offensive peaceful coexistence preparedness shirt-sleeve diplomacy shuttle diplomacy spheres of influence the big stick tough policy world politics |