Term: foreign direct investment: investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business)
Candidate hypernym: investing: the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit → 1
Candidate hypernym: sequence: serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern → 0
Candidate hypernym: helper t cell: T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B cells and killer T cells; helper T cells are infected and killed by the AIDS virus → 0
Candidate hypernym: haemoproteus: type genus of the family Haemoproteidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: pyxidium: fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released → 0
Candidate hypernym: pygopodidae: Australian and Tasmanian lizards → 0
Candidate hypernym: styracosaur: an unusual ceratopsian dinosaur having many large spikes around the edge of its bony frill and a long nose horn; late Cretaceous → 0
Candidate hypernym: alendronate: a tablet (trade name Fosamax) prescribed to prevent or treat osteoporosis in women after menopause → 0
Candidate hypernym: shot hole: drill hole for a charge of an explosive → 0
Candidate hypernym: atopognosia: absence or loss of topognosia; inability to locate correctly a point of touch → 0
Candidate hypernym: ostrogoth: a member of the eastern group of Goths who created a kingdom in northern Italy around 500 AD → 0