Proper noun

International

1. International Airport, as the shortened form of an airport name.

International or internationally most often describes interaction between nations, or encompassing two or more nations, constituting a group or association having members in two or more nations, or generally reaching beyond national boundaries. In American English, "International" is also commonly used as a euphemism for "foreign" or even "foreigner."

• In team sports, "international" commonly refers either to a match between two national teams, or to a player capped by his national team.

• In politics, "The International" may refer to a political international.

• In linguistics, an "international language" is one spoken by the people of at least two nations, but preferably a large number of nations.

• In interlinguistics, international often has to do with languages rather than nations themselves. An "international word" is one that occurs in at least two languages, but preferable many more, as with linguistics above. These words are collected from widely spoken source or control languages and often used to establish language systems that people can use to communicate internationally, and sometimes for other purposes such as to learn other languages more quickly. The vocabulary of Interlingua has a particularly wide range, because the control languages of Interlingua were selected to give its words and affixes their maximum geographic scope. In part, the language Ido is also a product of interlinguistic research.

• In North American unionised environments, the term "international" is a euphemism for the central union location, which is often in the Washington, D.C. area. An example is the IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers), whose international office is in Washington, DC, whereas its local offices are spread all over North America. A regional union office that serves as an umbrella organisation for more than one local office, may still be called "international" by its rank and file members.

Global is commonly used as a synonym for "international", however such usage is typically incorrect as "global" implies "one world" as a single unit, while "international" recognizes that different peoples, cultures, languages, nations, borders, economies, and ecosystems exist. The word nonetheless sees usage as in various media buzzwords, such as "the global economy" eye.

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• PARENT International, Inc.
  parentinternational.com
  A non-profit parental abduction support network and coalition, working with parents and agencies worldwide to bring about greater awareness and understanding concerning international child abduction.
• David and Diana Kazarian
  davidkazarian.tripod.com
  David and Diana were abducted by their mother in 1996. Their father believes she left the country of Moscow and is now in the U.S.A.
• Federal Law: International Child Abduction
  fatty.law.cornell.edu
  US Code T 42 C 121 - International Child Abduction Remedies