Charge D'affaires Definition

shär-zhā də-fâr, dä-
noun
A diplomatic official who temporarily takes the place of a minister or ambassador.
Webster's New World
A diplomatic officer of the lowest rank who sometimes heads a low-level mission in a foreign nation.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Charge D'affaires

Noun

Singular:
charge d'affaires
Plural:
chargs-d-affaires

Origin of Charge D'affaires

  • French chargé charged, in charge de with, of affaires affairs

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French chargé d'affaires (literally “[one] charged with matters”).

    From Wiktionary

Charge D'affaires Sentence Examples

  • From 1825 to 1827 he acted as assistant viceconsul at Lisbon, where his uncle, Barthelemy de Lesseps, was the French charge d'affaires.

  • When his father was sent as minister to Great Britain in 1825 he accompanied him as secretary of the American legation, and when his father returned home on account of ill health he remained as charge d'affaires until August 1826.

  • In 1604 he was sent to Rome as charge d'affaires de France; when Clement VIII.

  • After serving in the legations in Switzerland and the Cisalpine republic, he was appointed in 1799 attaché to the French legation at Berlin, of which three years later he became charge d'affaires.

  • He was employed at the congress of Munster, where he remained after the signing of peace in 1648 as charge d'affaires until his death on the 5th of October of the next year.

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