FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foreign direct investment mean? 

• FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (noun)
  The noun FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT has 2 senses:

1. investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business)

2. a joint venture between a foreign company and a United States company

  Familiarity information: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("foreign direct investment" is a kind of...):

investing; investment (the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A joint venture between a foreign company and a United States company

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("foreign direct investment" is a kind of...):

joint venture (a venture by a partnership or conglomerate designed to share risk or expertise)