foreign direct investment

== English == === Noun === foreign direct investment (countable and uncountable, plural foreign direct investments) (economics, finance) A direct investment into the production or business in a country by an individual or company of another country, either by purchasing a company in the target country or by expanding operations of an existing business in that country. Synonym: FDI (initialism) Hypernyms: foreign investment < investment Coordinate terms: foreign portfolio investment, FPI ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== foreign direct investment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia