foreign country
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- noun
- /ˈfɔrɪn ˈkʌntri/
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país extranjero
- Every embassy in a foreign country has extraterritorial rights.
- cultural ties with foreign countries
- relations with foreign countries
- foreign countries and regions
Is that competition from foreign countries or government regulation?
- Is that competition from foreign countries or government regulation?
- Trump kidnapping Americans and sending them to foreign countries, AKA deporting them.
- You know, anything we can do to keep people from foreign countries who come here to be educated.
- Payment maybe is made when the goods get to the foreign country.
- I wasn't drinking and driving in a foreign country.
- Investigate Biden there it is pressuring a foreign country to provide dirt to influence our election.
- Often they're flagged as such because they simply transfer funds to a foreign country.
- So a lot of my formative years were spent living in foreign countries and returning here every, you know, two years.
- So you're not as dependent on oil or foreign countries or, you know, yeah, fossil fuels, etcetera, right.
- So I kind of became subject matter guy as far as how to not get into bad situations in foreign countries or in this country as well.
- So it's it's all the hallmarks of a very good intelligence case carried out by a foreign country.
- So you don't have to go off to some foreign country and die in some foreign war to be dead.
Examples
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Living in a foreign country can be a challenging but enriching experience.
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What was it like to land in a foreign country knowing you were going to live there?
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What would he do with two small children in a foreign country in the middle of a war?
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People do stupid things in foreign countries.
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But now you want me to bear your children and raise them in a foreign country?
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I just started working here, and honestly, it's like being in a foreign country.
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You are a United States citizen in a foreign country.
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For example, more Americans live and retire in Mexico than in any other foreign country.
Academic text (2008) -
You see, I know how it is to be a foreigner in a foreign country.
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I didn't have to worry about my daughter being alone in a foreign country.
Fiction book (1996)
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a country other than one's own' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'foreign' (relating to other countries) with 'country' (a nation). This adjective + noun composition is a basic and cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase foreign country comes from the simple idea that foreign means 'strange' or 'from far away', so a foreign country is a country that is 'not your own' or a place where you are not from.