commercial attaché
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of commercial attaché
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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The following, for example, from Mr. Alexander Hosie, the commercial attaché to the British legation at Peking, should carry weight.
From Drugging a Nation The Story of China and the Opium Curse by Samuel Merwin
The persistently vacationing commercial attaché, before coming to Mexico, was part of the Gestapo network in Moscow and Bulgaria.
From Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by John L. Spivak
The published estimates of Dr. Du Bose, of Soochow, president of the Anti-opium League, are much more conservative than those of Mr. Alex Hosie, the British commercial attaché and former consul-general.
From Drugging a Nation The Story of China and the Opium Curse by Samuel Merwin
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