country of origin

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country of origin

noun countries of origin

  1. The country in which a person or thing is deemed to have originated for the purposes of laws and regulations.
  2. The country where shipped goods are produced.
  3. The country in which the last stage of substantial transformation of goods occurred.
  4. The country in which the most important processing took place.
  5. The country in which a substantial amount of processing took place. The country of origin of a manufactured article is held to be the country in which the article has been finished by a substantial amount of labor amounting to not less than one-fourth the cost of production of such article in condition as imported into Canada.
  6. The country indicated on a label as being the country in which the goods were made. It says "Made in Mexico". I wonder if that is the real country of origin.
  7. Country of first publication. The country of origin of the work is that in which the work is first published.

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noun country of origin

DeutschUrsprungsland
Românățară de origine

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@misc{country_of_origin_2026,
  title = {country of origin},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/country%20of%20origin},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}