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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

The Israeli military went on the offensive against Hezbollah - which it proscribes as a terrorist organisation - after almost a year of cross-border fighting sparked by the war in Gaza.

From BBC

Since late September, Israel has pummelled Lebanon with thousands of air strikes in an escalation of its campaign against Hezbollah, the Iran-backed group it has been fighting in nearly a year of cross-border strikes.

From BBC

Those include staffing the State Department with ideological allies who will pressure foreign governments to accept deportees; reallocating resources from ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations unit, which is focused on cross-border crimes like drug smuggling and human trafficking; enlisting the National Guard; and constructing hundreds of detention camps and hiring tens of thousands more enforcement agents.

From Slate

The latest example of this came when it was accused of being complicit - as Uganda's Observer newspaper put it - in the "brazen cross-border abductions" of 36 Ugandan opposition supporters in July.

From BBC

Israel went on the offensive against Hezbollah after almost a year of cross-border fighting sparked by the war in Gaza.

From BBC

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