consulate
Origin of consulate
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How to use consulate in a sentence
Most consulates and NGO offices were closed months ago and few envoys visit the city now even on day trips.
American Teacher Ronnie Smith Shot Dead In Libya By Gunmen | Jamie Dettmer | December 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAlready the ministry is working with Spanish-speaking locals at Israeli consulates.
Maybe it should, but then embassies and consulates become different things than they are today.
Obama and the World, and the Wrongheaded Right | Michael Tomasky | September 26, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMost embassies have Marines assigned to them, while most consulates do not.
Hillary Clinton Faces Capitol Hill Grilling on Embassy Security in Muslim Attacks | Eleanor Clift | September 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTJamshid does not see our embassies and consulates as forts, but rather as symbols of a better tomorrow.
Fire In Cairo: A View From the Arab Street | John Kael Weston | September 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
The consulates are very much in evidence, with guards of splendid-looking Albanian kavasses.
The Land of the Black Mountain | Reginald WyonThese receptions are stupefying in their asininity, but they come to pass in most consulates, and those at Tunis are no exception.
In the Land of Mosques & Minarets | Francis MiltounNot all of them have business to transact, but still they are there, the consulates of all nations under the sun.
In the Land of Mosques & Minarets | Francis MiltounBut this is not all: the subordinate officers in some of the European Consulates are guilty of equally gross offences.
The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon | Habeeb Risk AllahEmbassies in particular should never exceed one year in Europe, nor consulates two.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems | Walter Savage Landor
British Dictionary definitions for consulate
/ (ˈkɒnsjʊlɪt) /
the business premises or residence of a consul
government by consuls
the office or period of office of a consul or consuls
(often capital)
the government of France by the three consuls from 1799 to 1804
this period of French history
(often capital)
the consular government of the Roman republic
the office or rank of a Roman consul
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