transnationaladj.n.

1921 R. N. Angell Fruits of Victory ii. 63 Much of Europe lives by virtue of an international, or more correctly, a trans-national economy.

1925 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 357 To accomplish necessary changes, not so much by altering frontiers as by ‘transnational’ arrangements.

1941 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. (1944) 144 The outstanding case of what we may call a transnational natural region—an industrial area cutting right across national boundaries—is the great concentration of industry in North-Western Europe.

1941 J. Macmurray Challenge to Churches 59 The Christian religion is the only possible force which can conceivably create the condition of a transnational, non~racial democratic polity.

1956 P. C. Jessup Transnational Law i. 2 I shall use, instead of ‘international law’, the term ‘transnational law’ to include all law which regulates actions or events that transcend national frontiers.

1968 Economist 13 July 65/2 To these three [sc. the ethnocentric, the polycentric, and the geocentric types of multi-national company], Professor Galbraith has added a fourth type, the transnational company, with international stock ownership.

1973 Reader's Digest Apr. 167/1 Terrorism..is ‘transnational’ in scope—that is, there is a kind of global brotherhood of terrorists who share basic beliefs and techniques.

1983 Church Times 6 May 10/4 It will fall to your lot to assess the transnational corporations..and see whether in fact they do promote Third World development.

1977 Irish Democrat Mar. 3/5 The Brussels dictators would probably just tolerate a secession provided the transnationals continued to rule the roost economically.

1980 Telegraph (Brisbane) 5 Sept. 2/2 Now that multinational has become a dirty word,..multinationals are..known as transnationals.

1921 R. N. Angell Fruits of Victory i. 14 Transport and credit, operating trans-nationally.

1976 Times 13 Feb. 15/6 Surely, a peaceful world needs respect for the rule of law, not only nationally but transnationally.

1921 R. N. Angell Fruits of Victory i. 300 The old individualist ‘trans-nationalism’.

1973 Listener 20 Dec. 845 The reality of transnationalism, at any rate in the non-Communist world, simply cannot be denied.