cross-border

See also: crossborder, and cross border

English

Alternative forms

• crossborder
• cross border

Etymology

From cross- +‎ border.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

cross-border (not comparable)

1. Taking place across a border.
   • 2001, Thomas Krayenbuehl, Cross-Border Exposures and Country Risk: Assessment and Monitoring, →ISBN:

     As we have seen, cross-border exposures carry a risk for the lender as well as the investor.

   • 2002, Marta Pertegás Sender, Cross-border Enforcement of Patent Rights, →ISBN:

     At the heart of cross-border litigation is a series of premises that have already been described.

   • 2008 May 28, “Canadians not cross-border shopping like they used to”, in CBC News, Canada, retrieved 1 November 2011:

     Canadians didn't spend as much in the U.S. during the first three months of the year as they did in the previous quarter, as cross-border shopping lost some of its lustre, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.

   • 2009, Shiu Hing Lo, The Politics of Cross-border Crime in Greater China, →ISBN:

     Having inherited a relatively strong anticrime apparatus from the British administration, the postcolonial state in the HKSAR has had difficulty in combating cross-border crime since its retrocession to the mainland.

   • 2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in Rail, page 54:

     "Beyond Hawick to Carlisle, it's going to depend a lot more on the cross-border traffic. Possibly it would be a useful diversionary route if anything happened either on the West Coast route or the East Coast route, but then I suppose it's more difficult to quantify the benefit from that.

Derived terms

• cross-border ticket

Translations

taking place across a border

• Afrikaans: oorgrens
• Basque: mugaz bestaldeko
• Catalan: transfronterer (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 跨境 (zh) (kuàjìng)

• Czech: přeshraniční
• Danish: grænseoverskridende
• Dutch: grensoverschrijdend (nl)
• Finnish: rajan ylittävä, rajat ylittävä
• French: transfrontalier (fr)
• Galician: transfronteirizo
• German: grenzüberschreitend (de), grenzübergreifend
• Greek: διασυνοριακός (el) m (diasynoriakós)
• Italian: transfrontaliero
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grenseoverskridende

• Portuguese: transfronteiriço
• Spanish: transfronterizo (es)
• Swedish: gränsöverskridande

Adverb

cross-border (not comparable)

1. Across a border.
   • 1998, Edna Oppenheimer, Matana Bunnag, Aaron Stern, HIV/AIDS and Cross-Border Migration, →ISBN:

     Working Cross-Border It must be assumed that working cross-border to prevent the spread of HIV/ AIDS is a good thing.

   • 2007, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee, DFID asistance to Burmese internally displaced people and refugees on the Thai-Burma border, →ISBN:

     In general, groups working cross-border are much better-funded, and have more capacity, than those working inside Burma.

   • 2012, Saskia Hufnagel, Clive Harfield, Simon Bronitt, Cross-border Law Enforcement, →ISBN:

     The statement acknowledged the challenges and complex issues involved in working 'cross-border' but believed that the concept could be realized (WAPOL 2003a).

   • 2012, Erwin Nijkeuter, Taxation of Cross-Border Dividends Paid to Individuals from an EU Perspective, →ISBN:

     Have these additional costs dissuaded you from investing cross-border?

   • 2013, Issues in Healthcare Technology and Design, →ISBN, page 4:

     The final decision tool consists of three sections: a general section, a section for hospitals not cooperating cross-border and a section for hospitals that are cooperating with hospitals across a national or regional border.