NOUN
- a joint venture between a foreign company and a United States company
- investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business)
How To Use foreign direct investment In A Sentence
- The administration, its surrogates and supporters have latched on to something called insourcing, which I used to call foreign direct investment, but they seem to see that as a counterpoint to the export of cheap -- of American jobs to cheap overseas labor markets. CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2004
- He said he saw the bank's role as a catalyst to encourage foreign direct investment.
- Much of the inflow is foreign direct investment. Times, Sunday Times
- He added that robust foreign direct investment in China had supported good demand for machinery and component supplies.
- He said he saw the bank's role as a catalyst to encourage foreign direct investment.
- He said he saw the bank's role as a catalyst to encourage foreign direct investment.
- That is equivalent to seven times the value of all known oil reserves in the country and 31 times the value of foreign direct investment.
- In addition, the country has seen new record inflows of foreign direct investment. Times, Sunday Times
- Copper, coal, gold, molybdenum, fluorspar, uranium, tin, and tungsten account for a large part of industrial production and foreign direct investment. Mongolia
- The government maintains that the deal is a vote of confidence in Britain as a recipient of foreign direct investment and in its high-tech industries. Times, Sunday Times