Foreigner

Definition

foreign / 'fɒrǝn; US 'fↄ:r- / adj ၁။ (က) ႏိုင္ငံျခား။ တိုင္းတစ္ပါး။ foreign languages / goods / students ❍ a foreign-owned company. (ခ) ႏိုင္ငံျခား။ ျပည္ပ။ foreign affairs/ news/policy/trade ❍ foreign aid (ie money, etc given by one country to another in need). ၂။ ~ to sb/sth ( fml ) ပင္ကိုသဘာဝ မဟုတ္ေသာ။ ပင္ကိုစ႐ိုက္မဟုတ္ေသာ။ Dishonesty is foreign to his nature. ၃။ ( fml ) ျပင္ပ။ မ်ဳိးျခား။ မသက္ဆိုင္ေသာ။ a foreign body (eg a hair or piece of dirt) in the eye. ❏ the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( abbr FCO ) ႏိုင္ငံျခားႏွင့္ ဓနသဟာယႏိုင္ငံမ်ား႐ံုး။ Compare THE HOME OFFICE ❏ foreigner n ၁။ ႏိုင္ငံျခားသား။ တိုင္းတစ္ပါးသား။ ၂။ မဆိုင္သူ။ အျပင္လူ။ လူစိမ္း။ ❏ foreign exchange n [U] ႏိုင္ငံျခားေငြေၾကး။ the foreign exchange markets. ❏ the Foreign Secretary n ႏိုင္ငံျခားႏွင့္ ၿဗိတိသွ် ဓန သဟာယ ႐ံုးဆိုင္ရာ ၿဗိတိသွ်အစိုးရ ဝန္ႀကီး။

Examples

1. Working in a foreign country takes some getting used to.
2. Do you speak any foreign languages?
3. They’ve already had two foreign holidays this year.
4. Foreign policy
5. The part of the newspaper dealing with foreign affairs
6. In some versions of free-market economics
7. the notion of public service is quite foreign.
8. [foreign to] : She was in a state of deep depression that was totally foreign to her nature.
9. The immune system’s response to foreign proteins