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
Witkoff has travelled to Moscow to hold talks with Vladimir Putin on several occasions, but Sunday's meeting at the chancellery in Berlin was the first time he met Zelensky.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025
"With the IRA, there's some stability about what companies should expect" in the United States, Veronika Grimm, one of the German government's chief economic experts who advises the chancellery, told Reuters.
From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2023
A Ukrainian flag also was raised outside the chancellery.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
In the plaza across from the chancellery building, boys swarmed the treetops for a better view.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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
The State Department has undertaken 200 security projects at 120 chancelleries since the U.S. embassy in Beirut was blasted last April.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
But in chancelleries, the dictates of conscience contested with the practices of diplomacy.
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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