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Amid such moans it is worth remembering that, for all the barriers that foreign multinationals face in China, it has welcomed them with open arms compared with the protectionism imposed by Japan and South Korea at comparable stages in their economic development.\nThere are many more foreign students in Europe since the Erasmus scheme started." }, { "mean": "Relating to a different nation.\nforeign policy; foreign navies" }, { "mean": "Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.\nforeign body;foreign substance;foreign gene;foreign species" }, { "mean": "(with to, formerly with from) Alien; strange.\nIt was completely foreign to their way of thinking.\n1708 December 15 (Gregorian calendar; date written), , A Letter from a Member of the House of Commons in Ireland to a Member of the House of Commons in England, Concerning the Sacramental Test, London: John Morphew , published 1709, →OCLC, page 14:his deſign is not ſo foreign from ſome Peoples Thoughts, \n1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 133:Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's \"Motive Power Miscellany\" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.\n1613 (date written), William Shakespeare; , “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, / That he ran mad and died." }, { "mean": "(US, state law) From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation." }, { "mean": "Belonging to a different organization, company etc.\nMy bank charges me $2.50 every time I use a foreign ATM." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Outside, outdoors, outdoor." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A foreign person, particularly:", "submean": [ "(now informal) A foreigner: a person from another country.\n2011 August 30, \"White House Extremely Worried About People Saying Dumb Stuff on 9/11\" in Gawker:\nThe messaging instructions come in two sets: one for domestics, another for the foreigns.", "(obsolete) An outsider: a person from another place or group.", "(obsolete) A non-guildmember." ] }, { "mean": "A foreign vehicle, particularly:", "submean": [ "(obsolete) A foreign ship.", "(slang) A foreign whip, a car produced abroad.\n2019 August 28, Yb Tak30ver (lyrics and music), “Island”‎, 1:16 :In the foreign switching lanes and we ridingA island I wanna live somewhere silentI'm shining I'm bout to flood my neck with diamondsYeah I've been spitting facts these niggas lyingI'm driving stolens, foreigns, yeah I'm riding" ] }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Clipping of chamber foreign: an outhouse.\n1303, Richard Mannyng, Handlyng Synne, l. 7436 f.:\nFul foule ys þat forreyneÞat ys comoun for al certeyne." }, { "mean": "A foreign area, particularly:", "submean": [ "(now dialect) An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits.", "(obsolete, usually in the plural) An area of a monastery outside its legal limits or serving as an outer court." ] }, { "mean": "Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }