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
Other Word Forms
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
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
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
Her death was announced on April 14 by the federal chancellery, The Associated Press reported.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 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
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
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
Chaim Weizmann, No. 1, was the gentlemanly persuader, pleading eloquently in the world's chancelleries, the acknowledged leader until the time came for action.
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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