consular agent

American  

noun

1. a consular officer of the lowest rank, often a designated foreign national, stationed at a place where no full consular service is established.

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consular agent British  

noun

1. a consul of one of the lower grades

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Example Sentences

He had been Italy's consular agent at Johnstown, Pa. since 1932, had not seen his own country for over 30 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Noyes was divorced two months ago from Robert Russell Dickey Jr., onetime U.S. consular agent in Pau, France, has four children.

From Time Magazine Archive

The consular agent here is a man named Quay, and he and I have been in the commission business together.

From Captain Macklin by Davis, Richard Harding

Mr. Rick was not only Messrs. Wightman’s manager, but consular agent for the States.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

He afterwards became a sort of consular agent at Tangier, under old Mr Drummond Hay.

From Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 by Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon