foreign

Definition

  • adjective: located outside a particular place or country and especially outside your own country
  • adjective: situated outside a place or country
  • often + 'to'
  • synonyms: extraneous, outlandish, distant

Examples

  • a 'foreign correspondent' [=a journalist who reports from a foreign country]

  • a 'foreign'-born resident [=a resident who was born in a foreign country]

  • Our country has to export more in order to earn more 'foreign exchange'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) is going to cut our feed to Tehran. But Please be careful. Yeah, I'll continue to stand by. Now you see how fundamental these robots are to our foreign policy. So then tell me, why can't we use these machines here at home? Why is America so robophobic? On the one hand, we have Raymond Sellers. (..)
    2014 RoboCop