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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Etymology
Origin of chancellery
1250–1300; Middle English chancellerie < Anglo-French, equivalent to chanceller chancellor + -ie -y 3
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In Berlin, a similar march organised by the group United for Palestine drew around 3,500 people as it set off from a square between the chancellery and parliament, said police.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 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
But in the end, he said, “it’s too weak to make a real difference in foreign policy and won’t be very consequential in setting a future course,” which will be decided in the chancellery.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
In Germany's last federal election campaign, the Greens were considered to have a real chance of winning the chancellery, and briefly led opinion polls in mid-2021.
From Reuters ● May 16, 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
It slips through the corridors of the world's chancelleries so insubstantial a wraith that no man can lay hand on it and say, 'Here is a living, breathing, corporeal body!'
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
Accordingly, when Shepilov, now Soviet Foreign Minister, set out three weeks ago to revisit the scene of his original triumph, European chancelleries nervously braced themselves for further Soviet coups.
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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