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cross-border

[ kraws-bawr-der, kros- ]

adjective

  1. crossing an international border:

    cross-border tourist traffic.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of cross-border1

1890–95, for an earlier sense

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Example Sentences

“I think there should have been much more cross-border aid deliveries, much earlier,” he said.

Nearby, a yellow Caterpillar excavator sits idle next to an opening that once led into a cross-border tunnel.

For months, there were cross-border concerns in the United States about traveling to Mexico, and about Mexicans traveling here.

Kiev officials said today that Ukrainian border guards rebuffed an attempted cross-border incursion by dozens of separatists.

Globally, there are few cross-border land threats to which the U.S. would respond.

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