chancellery
Americannoun
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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
Example Sentences
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"The mood in the chancellery is very good and constructive," he insisted, adding the government was focused on its reform plans and that people should "avoid side debates".
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Scholz, whose chances of retaining the chancellery look remote, later insisted that he was "staying cool" about Elon Musk's attacks.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025
The chancellery in Berlin did not immediately respond to a Reuters e-mailed request for comment.
From Reuters ● Jul. 4, 2023
A Ukrainian flag also was raised outside the chancellery.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 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
In the chancelleries and the countinghouses of major capitals last week, worry spread about the possibility of a decline in world trade, leading to a further global economic slowdown and perhaps a recession.
From Time Magazine Archive
State Department and in other chancelleries, East and West.
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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