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foreign office

n.
The governmental department in charge of foreign affairs in certain countries.
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foreign office

n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the ministry of a country or state that is concerned with dealings with other states. US equivalent: State Department Canadian equivalent: department of external affairs
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for′eign of`fice


n.
the department of a government that handles foreign affairs.
[1855–60]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Foreign Office - the government department in charge of foreign relations
ministry - a government department under the direction of a minister
French Foreign Office, Quai d'Orsay - the French department in charge of foreign affairs; referred to familiarly by its address in Paris
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Translations

Foreign Office

n (Brit) → ministero degli Esteri
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I heard vaguely that his abilities and the influences which he commanded had won him a good position at the Foreign Office, and then he passed completely out of my mind until the following letter recalled his existence:
The Foreign Office especially is ageing its men fast these few years.
"Negotiations of a more formal character are naturally conducted between your Foreign Office and the Foreign Office of my country.
In the mean while John Petherick, the English consul at the city of Karthoum, has received about seven hundred pounds from the foreign office; he is to equip a steamer at Karthoum, stock it with sufficient provisions, and make his way to Gondokoro; there, he will await Captain Speke's caravan, and be able to replenish its supplies to some extent."
"I am going to the Foreign Office about my passport--I have some interest there: they can give me letters; they can advise and assist me.
George I., an infant of eighteen, and a scraggy nest of foreign office holders, sit in the places of Themistocles, Pericles, and the illustrious scholars and generals of the Golden Age of Greece.
Sir Henry Harland Fisher, with half the alphabet after his name, was something at the Foreign Office far more tremendous than the Foreign Secretary.
"But Madame Firmiani is announced at the Foreign Office parties?"
When the old king--who was suspicious of the English, their railways and telegraphs--died, Purun Dass stood high with his young successor, who had been tutored by an Englishman; and between them, though he always took care that his master should have the credit, they established schools for little girls, made roads, and started State dispensaries and shows of agricultural implements, and published a yearly blue-book on the "Moral and Material Progress of the State," and the Foreign Office and the Government of India were delighted.
She could get herself admitted into the Foreign Office at one o'clock in the morning if it so pleased her.
Since he has been at the Foreign Office, he has been so much talked of in Vienna.
Then, giving the Home Department and the leadership of the House of Commons to Joodle, the Exchequer to Koodle, the Colonies to Loodle, and the Foreign Office to Moodle, what are you to do with Noodle?

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