foreign : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a spy for a foreign country
  

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• noun aid (such as economic or military assistance) provided to one nation by another
  

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• (Law), a process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; called in some States trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee process. Kent. Tomlins. Cowell.

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• noun a bill of exchange that is drawn in one country and made payable in another
  foreign bill.
  

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• a bill drawn in one country, and payable in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in several other points of view, the different States of the United States are foreign to each other. See Exchange, n., 4. Kent. Story.

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• (Med.), a substance occurring in any part of the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without.

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• noun a journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a foreign country for publication or broadcast
  

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• noun any state of which one is not a citizen
  
  • working in a foreign country takes a bit of getting used to

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• noun investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business)
  
• noun a joint venture between a foreign company and a United States company
  

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• noun a bill of exchange that is drawn in one country and made payable in another
  foreign bill.
  

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• noun the system by which one currency is exchanged for another; enables international transactions to take place
  

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• noun Russia's intelligence service responsible for foreign operations, intelligence-gathering and analysis, and the exchange of intelligence information; collaborates with other countries to oppose proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and organized crime
  SVR; Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki.
  

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• noun an act passed by Congress in 1978 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
  FISA.
  

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• noun a secret federal court created in 1978 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies
  F.I.S.C..
  

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• noun a military unit composed of foreign volunteers who serve the state
  

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• noun a government minister for foreign relations
  secretary of state.
  

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• noun an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work
  mission; missionary post; missionary station.
  
• noun a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister
  legation.
  

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• noun the government department in charge of foreign relations
  

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• that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.

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• noun a policy governing international relations
  

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• noun the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world
  

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• noun a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals
  terrorist group; terrorist organization; FTO.
  

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• adjective satellite of persons born in another area or country than that lived in
  nonnative.
  
  • our large nonnative population

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• noun a former foreign legion in the French army that was used for military duties outside of France
  

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• noun the French department in charge of foreign affairs; referred to familiarly by its address in Paris
  Quai d'Orsay.
  

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• noun an organization of United States war veterans
  VFW.
  

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