consulate general

noun

, plural consulates general.

First recorded in 1880–85

Many others have been asking for information from this Consulate-General, which has been able to give valuable information.

From 1854 on, there was not a single year during which the consulate general was not in his charge for several months.

It was a top secret message sent to us via the American consulate general's channels from Singapore.

There are several hundreds of them in the German Consulate-General which has been provisioned as for a siege.

All they had to do was to go down to the German Consulate-General, where we had people waiting to tell them all there was to know.

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