A2 belonging or connected to a country that is not your own:
foreign languages
His work provided him with the opportunity for a lot of foreign travel.
foreign to formal
C2 Something can be described as foreign to a particular person if they do not know about it or it is not within their experience:
› A foreign object or substance has entered something else, possibly by accident, and does not belong there:
foreign matter
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- As a leader, he's been criticized for his inexperience in foreign affairs.
- He is trying to persuade local and foreign businesses to invest in the project.
- The government wanted an inflow of foreign investment.
- The foreign invaders were finally defeated by allied forces.
- My grandfather has a profound mistrust of anything new or foreign.
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