foreign country

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   any state of which one is not a citizen

   “working in a foreign country takes a bit of getting used to”

   Broaderstate

Questions about foreign country

What does foreign country mean?

foreign country means "any state of which one is not a citizen".

Is foreign country a common word?

foreign country is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.