cross-border

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See also: crossborder, and cross border

English

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Etymology

From cross- +‎ border.

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Adjective

cross-border (not comparable)

  1. Taking place across a border.
    • 2001, Thomas Krayenbuehl, Cross-Border Exposures and Country Risk: Assessment and Monitoring, →ISBN:
      As we have seen, cross-border exposures carry a risk for the lender as well as the investor.
    • 2002, Marta Pertegás Sender, Cross-border Enforcement of Patent Rights, →ISBN:
      At the heart of cross-border litigation is a series of premises that have already been described.
    • 2008 May 28, “Canadians not cross-border shopping like they used to”, in CBC News, Canada, retrieved 1 November 2011:
      Canadians didn't spend as much in the U.S. during the first three months of the year as they did in the previous quarter, as cross-border shopping lost some of its lustre, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.
    • 2009, Shiu Hing Lo, The Politics of Cross-border Crime in Greater China, →ISBN:
      Having inherited a relatively strong anticrime apparatus from the British administration, the postcolonial state in the HKSAR has had difficulty in combating cross-border crime since its retrocession to the mainland.
    • 2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in Rail, page 54:
      "Beyond Hawick to Carlisle, it's going to depend a lot more on the cross-border traffic. Possibly it would be a useful diversionary route if anything happened either on the West Coast route or the East Coast route, but then I suppose it's more difficult to quantify the benefit from that.

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Adverb

cross-border (not comparable)

  1. Across a border.
    • 1998, Edna Oppenheimer, Matana Bunnag, Aaron Stern, HIV/AIDS and Cross-Border Migration, →ISBN:
      Working Cross-Border It must be assumed that working cross-border to prevent the spread of HIV/ AIDS is a good thing.
    • 2007, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee, DFID asistance to Burmese internally displaced people and refugees on the Thai-Burma border, →ISBN:
      In general, groups working cross-border are much better-funded, and have more capacity, than those working inside Burma.
    • 2012, Saskia Hufnagel, Clive Harfield, Simon Bronitt, Cross-border Law Enforcement, →ISBN:
      The statement acknowledged the challenges and complex issues involved in working 'cross-border' but believed that the concept could be realized (WAPOL 2003a).
    • 2012, Erwin Nijkeuter, Taxation of Cross-Border Dividends Paid to Individuals from an EU Perspective, →ISBN:
      Have these additional costs dissuaded you from investing cross-border?
    • 2013, Issues in Healthcare Technology and Design, →ISBN, page 4:
      The final decision tool consists of three sections: a general section, a section for hospitals not cooperating cross-border and a section for hospitals that are cooperating with hospitals across a national or regional border.
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