cross-border
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.52 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "As we have seen, cross-border exposures carry a risk for the lender as well as the investor."
- "At the heart of cross-border litigation is a series of premises that have already been described."
- "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."
- "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."
- ""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."
- "Working Cross-Border It must be assumed that working cross-border to prevent the spread of HIV/ AIDS is a good thing."