chancellery
noun
the position of a chancellor.
chancelleries
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pluralof chancellery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
At the same time, public remonstrations from the chancelleries of Europe and elsewhere have often been modulated with whispered encouragement to Washington to keep up the good work.
From Time Magazine Archive
They denounced the Condominium and proclaimed Egypt's sovereignty over the Sudan; the nationalists' outcry for the Sudan moved from Cairo's streets into the world's chancelleries.
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
