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foreign-flag

/fawr-in-flag, for-/US // ˈfɔr ɪnˌflæg, ˈfɒr- //

外国国旗,外国旗帜,外國國旗,外國旗幟

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a registry under a nationality other than one's own: rivalry between U.S.-flag freighters and foreign-flag ships.
    • : owned by a national of one country and registered under the maritime laws of another country: Some foreign-flag vessels are actually owned by American shipping companies.

Examples

  • Cambodia, with its seemingly free press, is also a haven for foreign journalists.

  • Beyond the huge American flag that hung over the street, the mile-long mass of cops ended.

  • What they believe impacts economic policy, foreign policy, education policy, environmental policy, you name it.

  • Huckabee is also not burdened by, or beholden to, foreign investors.

  • What if there were a legal dispute between the foreign investor and his or her Egyptian partners or collaborators?

  • It is a lofty and richly-decorated pile of the fourteenth century; and tells of the labours and the wealth of a foreign land.

  • The lack of bill buyers in foreign countries who will quote as low rates on dollar as on sterling bills.

  • I found that I still felt the lure of foreign countries, and the less explored or inhabited, the better.

  • There are very few foreign journals taken or read in the Roman States.

  • Migration to distant occupations or to foreign lands was but for the adventurous few.