Synonyms for foreign direct investment
for·eign di·rect in·vest·ment

Princeton's WordNet

1. foreign direct investmentnoun

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

2. foreign direct investmentnoun

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

Matched Categories

1. • Investing
   • Joint Venture

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1. Markus Kerber:

   When it comes to new German foreign direct investment, it's looking bad.

2. Ashraf Mahmood Wathra:

   Our long-term solutions lie in increasing exports and increasing FDI (foreign direct investment), without these two strong inflows, it is very difficult to keep the economy on track.

3. Chatib Basri:

   The only solution is to get money from abroad to come in through foreign direct investment (FDI), but how can you attract investment without structural reforms?

4. Keith Pogson:

   There is a clear distinction between investment outflows that will ultimately lead to foreign direct investment in China, and hot money that's gone forever, the ChemChina deal is a very astute transaction and we will continue to see a fairly high level of such transactions, and this is not contrary to the outflow control objective.

5. State John Kerry:

   The implementation of this agreement is really key, a very important step to be able to attract foreign direct investment.