foreign direct investment (English, noun)
expansion: foreign direct investment (countable and uncountable, plural foreign direct investments, abbreviation FDI)
Senses:
topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
glosses: Direct investment into production or business in a country by an individual or company of another country, either by buying a company in the target country or by expanding operations of an existing business in that country.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: foreign direct investments
tags: plural
form: FDI
tags: abbreviation