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- Dictionarychargé d'affaires/ˌʃɑːʒeɪ daˈfɛː/
noun
- 1. an ambassador's deputy.
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A chargé d'affaires (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁʒe dafɛʁ]), plural chargés d'affaires, often shortened to chargé (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to charge-D, is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador.
a person who represents the leader of his or her government, either temporarily while the ambassador is away, or permanently in a country where there is no ambassador: the Belgian chargé d'affaires/the chargé d'affaires for Belgium. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. International relations: diplomacy & mediation.
Charge d’affaires is the lowest rank of diplomatic representative under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Learn how they are accredited, act in the absence of ambassadors, and differ from other titles such as myothugyi and thaikthugyi.
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Mar 28, 2012 · 1. : a subordinate diplomat who substitutes for an absent ambassador or minister. 2. : a diplomat inferior in rank to an ambassador or minister who heads a mission when no ambassador or minister is assigned. Examples of chargé d'affaires in a Sentence.
Learn the meaning and usage of the French term chargé d'affaires, which can refer to a temporary or permanent diplomatic official in a foreign country. See synonyms, pronunciation, collocations and sentences from Collins Dictionary.
CHARGÉ D'AFFAIRES meaning: 1 : a person who takes the place of an ambassador when the ambassador is away; 2 : a person with a lower rank than an ambassador who works as a diplomat in countries where no ambassador is assigned.
an official below the rank of ambassador who acts as their country's senior representative in a foreign country where there is no ambassador. Check pronunciation: chargé d’affaires. Definition of chargé d’affaires noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
