multinational (organization)

1) Economy: multinational company, multinational enterprise, multinational organization

2) Accounting: multinational, multinational firm

3) Diplomatic term: multinational enterprise (МНК)

4) Makarov: multinational corporation

m; -s, -s; umg. multinational (concern)

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m -s, -s (inf)

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m (fam) multinational [company]

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Multi m; -s, -s; umg multinational (concern)

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plurinazionale agg. multinational // (econ.): associazione plurinazionale, multinational association; organismo plurinazionale, multinational organization.

a pricing method used when supplying products or services from one part of an organization to another. The transfer pricing method can be used to supply goods either at cost or at profit if profit targets are to be achieved. This can cause difficulties if an internal customer can buy more cheaply outside the organization. Multinational businesses have been known to take advantage of this pricing policy by transferring products from one country to another in order for profits to be higher in the country where corporation tax is lower.

1 company.

pequeña y mediana empresa small and medium-sized business

libre empresa free enterprise

empresa conjunta joint venture

empresa filial subsidiary

empresa matriz parent company

empresa privada private company

la empresa privada the private sector

empresa pública public sector firm

la empresa pública the public sector

empresa de trabajo temporal temping agency

empresa de transportes haulage firm

2 enterprise, undertaking.

se embarcó en una peligrosa empresa he embarked on a risky enterprise o undertaking

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► nombre femenino

1 (compañía) firm, company

2 (dirección) management

3 (acción) undertaking, venture

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empresa filial subsidiary company

empresa matriz parent company

empresa multinacional multinational company

empresa naviera shipping company

libre empresa free enterprise

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1) company, corporation, firm, business

2) undertaking, venture

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1) (=tarea) enterprise

2) (Com, Econ) (=compañía) firm, company

3) (=dirección) management

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1)

a) ( compañía) company, firm (BrE)

b) ( dirección) management

- empresa de servicios públicos

- empresa privada/pública

2) (tarea, labor) venture, undertaking

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1)

a) ( compañía) company, firm (BrE)

b) ( dirección) management

- empresa de servicios públicos

- empresa privada/pública

2) (tarea, labor) venture, undertaking

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empresa¹

¹ = business [businesses, -pl.], commercial firm, company, corporation, firm, business enterprise, outfit, business interest, business firm, industrial firm, commercial enterprise, operating company.

Nota: Perteneciente a un grupo.

empresa²

² = enterprise, scheme, venture, quest, operation, undertaking.

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1 (compañía) company, firm ( BrE)

empresa filial subsidiary company

mediano, pequeño¹ (↑ pequeño (1))

2 (dirección) management

la empresa no se hace responsable de … the management cannot accept liability for …

libre¹ (↑ libre (1))

start-up

public utility company, public utility

sponsors (pl) ( of an artistic event)

private sector company

public sector company

raider

masculine and feminine (Ur) self-employed person, sole trader ( BrE)

B (tarea, labor) venture, undertaking

nos hemos embarcado en una arriesgada empresa we've undertaken a risky venture

pereció en la empresa ( liter); she perished in the attempt ( liter)

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◊ empresa pública public sector company

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empresa nf

1. [sociedad] company;

pequeña y mediana empresa small and medium-sized business;

prohibido fijar carteles: responsable la empresa anunciadora [en letrero] post o stick no bills: advertisers will be held liable

empresa conjunta joint venture;

empresa filial subsidiary;

empresa funeraria undertaker's;

empresa júnior junior enterprise, = firm set up and run by business studies students;

empresa libre, libre empresa free enterprise;

empresa matriz parent company;

empresa mixta mixed company;

empresa privada private company;

empresa pública public sector firm;

empresa punto com dot.com (company);

empresa de seguridad security firm;

empresa de servicio público public utility, US public service corporation;

empresa de servicios service company;

empresa de trabajo temporal Br temping o US temp agency;

empresa de transportes Br haulage o US trucking firm;

2. [dirección] management;

las negociaciones con la empresa the negotiations with management

3. [acción] enterprise, undertaking;

se embarcó en una peligrosa empresa he embarked on a risky enterprise o undertaking

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1 company;

gran empresa large company;

pequeña empresa small business;

mediana empresa medium-sized business

2 fig

venture, undertaking

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empresa nf

1) compañía, firma: company, corporation, firm

2) : undertaking, venture

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empresa n

1. (entidad) company [pl. companies]

2. (negocio) business [pl. businesses]

   Portuguese industry includes electricity, gas, water, mining, and manufacturing sectors. Manufacturing, the largest of these sectors, is concentrated in two major industrial regions: Lisbon-Setúbal in the south and Oporto-Aveiro-Braga in the north. Together, these two regions contain the factories that account for 75 percent of Portugal's industrial output. The Lisbon-Setúbal region includes major heavy industries, such as steel making, shipbuilding and repair, oil refining, chemicals, cement, automobile assembly, wood pulp, cork, and fish processing. About 140 kilometers (84 miles) to the south at Sines is a major deepwater port and associated steel-making and oil-refining complex at Sines. Light industry is located primarily in the Oporto-Aveiro-Braga industrial triangle. Here are located factories that manufacture textiles, footwear, furniture, cutlery, and electronics. Portugal's largest petroleum refinery is located in Oporto.

   Industrial organization in Portugal reflects three ownership patterns: privately owned domestic factories are concentrated in light industrials; publicly owned factories dominate heavy industry, such as petrochemicals, shipbuilding, steel making, petroleum refining, and electricity; subsidiaries of multinational corporations dominate electronics, automotive, pharmaceutical, and electrical machinery industries. In general, Portugal's light industries, such as textiles, footwear, food, beverage, cork products, and furniture, are labor intensive and technologically backward.

1. the maintenance and development of an organization’s production or market interests across national borders with either local or expatriate staff

2. the process of running a multinational business, made up of formerly independent organizations

3. the body of skills, knowledge, and understanding required to manage cross-cultural operations

an organization that has grown beyond the limits of a medium-sized business and has 500 or more employees. It is usually from the ranks of large-sized businesses that multinational businesses arise.

SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics

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The young Eastman was a clerk-bookkeeper in the Rochester Savings Bank when in 1877 he took up photography. Taking lessons in the wet-plate process, he became an enthusiastic amateur photographer. However, the cumbersome equipment and noxious chemicals used in the process proved an obstacle, as he said, "It seemed to be that one ought to be able to carry less than a pack-horse load." Then he came across an account of the new gelatine dry-plate process in the British Journal of Photography of March 1878. He experimented in coating glass plates with the new emulsions, and was soon so successful that he decided to go into commercial manufacture. He devised a machine to simplify the coating of the plates, and travelled to England in July 1879 to patent it. In April 1880 he prepared to begin manufacture in a rented building in Rochester, and contacted the leading American photographic supply house, E. \& H.T.Anthony, offering them an option as agents. A local whip manufacturer, Henry A.Strong, invested $1,000 in the enterprise and the Eastman Dry Plate Company was formed on 1 January 1881. Still working at the Savings Bank, he ran the business in his spare time, and demand grew for the quality product he was producing. The fledgling company survived a near disaster in 1882 when the quality of the emulsions dropped alarmingly. Eastman later discovered this was due to impurities in the gelatine used, and this led him to test all raw materials rigorously for quality. In 1884 the company became a corporation, the Eastman Dry Plate \& Film Company, and a new product was announced. Mindful of his desire to simplify photography, Eastman, with a camera maker, William H.Walker, designed a roll-holder in which the heavy glass plates were replaced by a roll of emulsion-coated paper. The holders were made in sizes suitable for most plate cameras. Eastman designed and patented a coating machine for the large-scale production of the paper film, bringing costs down dramatically, the roll-holders were acclaimed by photographers worldwide, and prizes and medals were awarded, but Eastman was still not satisfied. The next step was to incorporate the roll-holder in a smaller, hand-held camera. His first successful design was launched in June 1888: the Kodak camera. A small box camera, it held enough paper film for 100 circular exposures, and was bought ready-loaded. After the film had been exposed, the camera was returned to Eastman's factory, where the film was removed, processed and printed, and the camera reloaded. This developing and printing service was the most revolutionary part of his invention, since at that time photographers were expected to process their own photographs, which required access to a darkroom and appropriate chemicals. The Kodak camera put photography into the hands of the countless thousands who wanted photographs without complications. Eastman's marketing slogan neatly summed up the advantage: "You Press the Button, We Do the Rest." The Kodak camera was the last product in the design of which Eastman was personally involved. His company was growing rapidly, and he recruited the most talented scientists and technicians available. New products emerged regularly—notably the first commercially produced celluloid roll film for the Kodak cameras in July 1889; this material made possible the introduction of cinematography a few years later. Eastman's philosophy of simplifying photography and reducing its costs continued to influence products: for example, the introduction of the one dollar, or five shilling, Brownie camera in 1900, which put photography in the hands of almost everyone. Over the years the Eastman Kodak Company, as it now was, grew into a giant multinational corporation with manufacturing and marketing organizations throughout the world. Eastman continued to guide the company; he pursued an enlightened policy of employee welfare and profit sharing decades before this was common in industry. He made massive donations to many concerns, notably the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and supported schemes for the education of black people, dental welfare, calendar reform, music and many other causes, he withdrew from the day-to-day control of the company in 1925, and at last had time for recreation. On 14 March 1932, suffering from a painful terminal cancer and after tidying up his affairs, he shot himself through the heart, leaving a note: "To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?" Although Eastman's technical innovations were made mostly at the beginning of his career, the organization which he founded and guided in its formative years was responsible for many of the major advances in photography over the years.

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