(of a business) belonging to a company based or registered in a foreign country.
a rival American company had complained about a foreign-owned firm getting the work
Example sentencesExamples
- Areas of resource exploitation operated by foreign-owned concessions were the primary population centers in the interior.
- The foreign-owned sector had an export turnover of $4.59 billion in 1999, growth of 42.4 per cent.
- The figures indicate a massive growth in revenues of foreign-owned businesses.
- Foreign-owned car plants in the US, which employ few unionized workers, have no such headaches.
- There had been a sharp decline in fisheries, partly attributed to poaching by foreign-owned fishing vessels.
- Much of the capital comes through the foreign-owned companies.
- More than 200 foreign-owned manufacturers are now operating in the country.
- In the 1990s, there was a rapid expansion of foreign-owned garment-making factories.
- He wants heavier regulation of Argentina's largely foreign-owned utilities.
- The results for foreign-owned lenders would appear to be inconsistent with the relationship lending hypothesis.