transnational.

Extending across or involving more than one national boundary or national society.

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Words that belong together

• transnational network
• transnational activity

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The transnational network connected local organizations without becoming a single state institution.

The study traced transnational activity through people and resources moving across borders.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Relational adjective; no ordinary degree comparison except where a meaningful degree is explicitly intended. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: definition, institutional analysis, scope assessment, comparison. Disciplines: academic writing, institutional analysis, conceptual explanation. Commonness: moderately common.