foreign
♦♦♦ for|eign /f'ɒrɪn, AM f'ɔːr-/
1 [ADJ]
Something or someone that is foreign comes from or relates to a country that is not your own.
...in Frankfurt, where a quarter of the population is foreign...
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.
2 [ADJ] ADJ n
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 US foreign policy in the `free world'.
3 [ADJ] usu ADJ n
A foreign object is something that has got into something else, usually by accident, and should not be there. (FORMAL)
The patient's immune system would reject the transplanted organ as a foreign object.
4 [ADJ] usu v-link ADJ to n
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...for|eign body (foreign bodies)
[N-COUNT]
A foreign body is an object that has come into something else, usually by accident, and should not be in it. (FORMAL)
...a foreign body in the eye.for|eign ex|change (foreign exchanges)
1 [N-PLURAL]
Foreign exchanges are the institutions or systems involved with changing one currency into another.
On the foreign exchanges, the US dollar is up point forty-five.
2 [N-UNCOUNT] oft N n
Foreign exchange is used to refer to foreign currency that is obtained through the foreign exchange system.
...an important source of foreign exchange.
...foreign-exchange traders.for|eign ser|vice
[N-SING] the N
The foreign service is the government department that employs diplomats to work in foreign countries. (AM; in BRIT, use diplomatic service)
1 [ADJ]
Something or someone that is foreign comes from or relates to a country that is not your own.
...in Frankfurt, where a quarter of the population is foreign...
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.
2 [ADJ] ADJ n
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 US foreign policy in the `free world'.
3 [ADJ] usu ADJ n
A foreign object is something that has got into something else, usually by accident, and should not be there. (FORMAL)
The patient's immune system would reject the transplanted organ as a foreign object.
4 [ADJ] usu v-link ADJ to n
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...for|eign body (foreign bodies)
[N-COUNT]
A foreign body is an object that has come into something else, usually by accident, and should not be in it. (FORMAL)
...a foreign body in the eye.for|eign ex|change (foreign exchanges)
1 [N-PLURAL]
Foreign exchanges are the institutions or systems involved with changing one currency into another.
On the foreign exchanges, the US dollar is up point forty-five.
2 [N-UNCOUNT] oft N n
Foreign exchange is used to refer to foreign currency that is obtained through the foreign exchange system.
...an important source of foreign exchange.
...foreign-exchange traders.for|eign ser|vice
[N-SING] the N
The foreign service is the government department that employs diplomats to work in foreign countries. (AM; in BRIT, use diplomatic service)