cross-border

[ kraws-bawr-der, kros- ]

adjective

1. crossing an international border:

   cross-border tourist traffic.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cross-border¹

1890–95, for an earlier sense

Example Sentences

Sam Rowlands, the Welsh Conservative health spokesperson said: "The Welsh Conservatives would immediately scrap the restrictive NHS guidance that locks patients in their local area, blocking cross-community and cross-border working, to make use of extra capacity to reduce excessive NHS waits in the short term and look to enact a substantial workforce plan to tackle the more deep-seated issues in the longer term."

From BBC

There was also the issue of the cross-border movement of women and children in and out of the institutions.

From BBC

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