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word foreign
definition
adjective
Something or someone that is foreign comes from or relates to a country that is not your own.
...a huge attraction for foreign visitors.
She was on her first foreign holiday without her parents.
...a foreign language.
It is the largest ever private foreign investment in the Bolivian mining sector.
In politics and journalism, foreign is used to describe people, jobs, and activities relating to countries that are not the country of the person or government concerned.
...the German foreign minister.
I am the foreign correspondent in Washington of La Tribuna newspaper of Honduras.
...the effects of U.S. foreign policy in the 'free world'.
A foreign object is something that has got into something else, usually by accident, and should not be there.
The patient's immune system would reject the transplanted organ as a foreign object.
Something that is foreign to a particular person or thing is not typical of them or is unknown to them.
The very notion of price competition is foreign to many schools.
The whole thing is foreign to us.
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