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foreign service

noun

, (often initial capital letters)

a division of the U.S. Department of State or of a foreign office that maintains diplomatic and consular posts and personnel in other countries.

foreign service

the diplomatic and usually consular personnel of a foreign affairs ministry or foreign office collectively who represent their country abroad, deal with foreign diplomats at home, etc

Foreign Service

The professional arm of the executive branch that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world. Ambassadors, though officially members of the Foreign Service, are sometimes friends of the president of the United States appointed in gratitude for support given during elections.

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First recorded in 1925–30

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Cason is now retired from the Foreign Service and is the mayor of Coral Gables, Florida.

And that desk is staffed by Foreign Service Officers who make a career of representing their clients.

He added: "Block owes the women and men of Foreign Service an apology."

He was the most experienced troubleshooter in the American Foreign Service.

In September 2004, President Bush conferred on him the personal rank of career ambassador, the highest Foreign Service rank.

Then for myself—I intend to go abroad, resume my name, and obtain employment in some foreign service.

Fortunately, by this time the period of his foreign service was all but at an end.

Time was pressing, for rumours were in the air that the regiment was well up the roster for foreign service.

Returned to duty at Devonport, an intimation soon reached me that I was again to proceed on foreign service.

Let us suppose that he is an officer of a hard-fighting, foreign-service, neglected infantry regiment.

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