foreign direct investment

1. 1.

   investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business)

   Broaderinvesting
2. 2.

   a joint venture between a foreign company and a United States company

   Broaderjoint venture

Questions about foreign direct investment

What does foreign direct investment mean?

foreign direct investment means "investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is foreign direct investment a common word?

foreign direct investment 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.