chancellery
Americannoun
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chancelleries
plural
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the position of a chancellor.
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the office or department of a chancellor.
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the office attached to an embassy or consulate.
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a building or room occupied by a chancellor's department.
noun
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the building or room occupied by a chancellor's office
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the position, rank, or office of a chancellor
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the residence or office of an embassy or legation
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the office of a consulate
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another name for a diplomatic chancery
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of chancellery
1250–1300; Middle English chancellerie < Anglo-French, equivalent to chanceller chancellor + -ie -y 3
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"I'll be heading to the state chancellery in December with the one who's faithfully accompanied me through the election campaign too," he wrote.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
He’s manning a stall in Jena and recalls how things seemed different when Olaf Scholz entered the chancellery three years ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024
"With the IRA, there's some stability about what companies should expect" in the United States, Veronika Grimm, one of the German government's chief economic experts who advises the chancellery, told Reuters.
From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2023
Her death was announced on April 14 by the federal chancellery, The Associated Press reported.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
Before the war, the life of Reinhold von Rumpel was pleasant enough: he was a gemologist who ran an appraisal business out of a second-story shop behind Stuttgart’s old chancellery.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Fourth, a question that has haunted chancelleries for several months: Is the new master of Damascus, Ahmed al-Sharaa, truly a repentant former member of al Qaeda?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
The tens of billions of dollars needed to realize these halls, palaces, chancelleries and stadiums were dissipated in war.
From Time Magazine Archive
For almost 40 years, this wise economist has been summoned by leaders of the chancelleries and the countinghouses for advice on money policies.
From Time Magazine Archive
In its press, over banquet tables and in chancelleries the world over, China is making a prodigious effort to reassure its concerned friends.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Europe’s chancelleries for the next century played a chess game of naked exploitation and power from Cape Horn to Cairo.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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