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national Definition

na·tional (nas̸h′ə nəl)

adjective

  1. of or having to do with a nation or the nation
  2. affecting a (or the) nation as a whole; nationwide in scope, involvement, representation, etc.
  3. patriotic or nationalist
  4. established, maintained, or owned by the federal government a national park

Etymology: Fr

noun

  1. a person under the protection of a (specified) country: citizen or subject
  2. the national headquarters or administration of an organization
  3. a competition in which participants compete for a nationwide ranking, title, championship, etc.

national Related Forms
na′·tion·ally adverb
national Synonyms

national

modif.

  1. Concerning a nation

    federal, political, sovereign, state, social, societal, politic, civic, civil, communal, royal, imperial, ethnic; see also governmental, public 2.

  2. Operative throughout a nation

    nationwide, inland, internal, country-wide, interstate, social, widespread, sweeping; see also general 1.

national Synonyms

national

n.

citizen, subject, inhabitant, native.

national Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • allow: Initially it allowed foreign nationals in specific subjects to work in the UK for twelve months after graduating.
  • enable: Instructions for former Finnish nationals and their decendants The new Act enables former Finnish nationals to resume Finnish nationality upon notification.
  • include: In total, the three RAF Hercules aircraft brought out 220 evacuees, including some nationals of other countries at their governments ' request.

Adjective modifier

  • foreign: Foreign nationals with work permits who live in the Bahamas are also normally considered to be resident.
  • British: They were joined by Government ministers, senior Egyptian businessmen and media figures and a host of British nationals living in the capital.

Modifies a noun

  • average: Labor turnover rates in the Tees Valley are a third of the national average.
  • identity: He was an individual expressing his own national identity a long way from home.
  • charity: He joined CLS in January December 1996 from Crisis, the national homelessness charity, where he was a Senior Manager.
  • park: The Edwards Report ' Fit for the Future ' reviews national parks.
  • newspaper: In Britain every national daily newspaper had follow-up stories.
  • security: Warrants renewed on national security / economic well-being grounds are valid for a further period of six months.

Modifying Another Word

  • ever: Last year the German's voted for their greatest ever national.
  • forward: The Strategy will also carry forward national policy initiatives including the Communities Plan, the Housing Market Renewal Fund and the Neighborhood Renewal Strategy.
  • about: These links are generally to national media, and are about national issues.
  • increasingly: Increasingly national and international in scope, the Institute targets audiences ranging from students to scholars to the general public.
  • yet: We are currently looking for Assistant Branch Managers for our local, yet national well-established client.
  • now: Now national carrier airBaltic is dominating movements at the airport having recently embarked on a major expansion.

Used with adjective complement

  • go: Well if we can do that, why not go national.
  • lead: We are a patient led national Charity focussing specifically on Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Preposition: of

  • country: In total, the three RAF Hercules aircraft brought out 220 evacuees, including some nationals of other countries at their governments ' request.
national Quotes

The most striking of all the impressions that I have formed since I left London a month ago is of the strength of African national consciousness. In different places it may take different forms, but it is happening everywhere. The wind of change is blowing through this continent.Whether we like it or not, the growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

—Stockton

   Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism, and from it, extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly, middle-class parties their nationalism.Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as crystal, the synthesis öGerman National Socialism.

—Goering, HermannWilhelm

For sheer courage and endurance, physical and mental, the two men stand together as examples of what toughness the body will find, if the spirit within it is tough; and as very worthy representatives of our national capacity for individual enterprise, which it is hoped even themodern craze for regulating everydetail of our lives will never stifle.

—Wavell, Archibald Percival, 1st Earl

It is singular that the Japanese, who rarely commit a solecism in taste in their national costume, architecture, or decorative art, seem to be perfectly destitute of perception when they borrow ours.

—Bird, Isabella married name Isabella Bishop

The National Debt is a very Good Thing, and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

—J(ulian)

If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.

—Pigou, Arthur Cecil

'I think this calls for a drink' has long been one of our national slogans.

—Thurber,James Grover

A life passed among pictures makes not a painteröelse the policeman in the National Gallery might assert himself.

—Whistler,James (Abbott) McNeill

[Alexander Hamilton] smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet.

—Webster, Daniel

   We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted† It is about time that we pulled our fingers out† The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.

—Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of

   People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to credit the serene indifference with which they consider events outside their own country.

—William III also called  William of Orange