overseas adjective - definition in Business English Dictionary

overseas

/ˌəʊvəˈsiːz/ adjective

› in, from, or connected with another country or countries, especially across the sea:

We need to open up overseas markets.

In the following years, he expanded the firm's overseas operations.

overseas investment/investors Finance ministers have struggled to attract overseas investors.

He continued to pay state taxes while he and his family were overseas.

(Definition of overseas adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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