be foreign
Frequency: 9.0150.5 per million words
Used to state that someone or something is from a country that is not your own.
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- She is foreign, so she needs a visa to work here.
- Many of our students are foreign, coming from over 30 countries.
- The film was foreign but still became a box-office hit.
- Will the documents be foreign or domestic?
- His medical degree is foreign, so it must be recognized.
- The investors are foreign, mainly based in Europe.
- I didn't realize she was foreign until she showed her passport.
- The currency they brought was foreign, so we exchanged it.
- This car is foreign, not assembled locally.
- Our guests will be foreign, so please prepare multilingual signs.