foreign direct investment

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Noun

foreign direct investment (countable and uncountable, plural foreign direct investments)

  2. (economics, finance) A direct investment into the production or business in a country by an individual or company of another country, either by purchasing a company in the target country or by expanding operations of an existing business in that country.
    Synonym: FDI (initialism)
    Hypernyms: foreign investment < investment
    Coordinate terms: foreign portfolio investment, FPI

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