chancellery
Americannoun
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chancelleries
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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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"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
Scholz receives Chinese premier Li Qiang for dinner in the chancellery on Monday evening ahead of the seventh round of bilateral, biennial talks which are also the first face-to-face session since the COVID-19 pandemic.
From Reuters ● Jun. 18, 2023
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
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
Yet in much of the world and in the U.S., the bold venture was greeted with elation; a sense of fresh possibilities stirred dusty chancelleries around the globe.
From Time Magazine Archive
State Department and in other chancelleries, East and West.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tens of billions of dollars needed to realize these halls, palaces, chancelleries and stadiums were dissipated in war.
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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