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consular agent

American  

noun

  1. a consular officer of the lowest rank, often a designated foreign national, stationed at a place where no full consular service is established.


consular agent British  

noun

  1. a consul of one of the lower grades

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Mrs. Noyes was divorced two months ago from Robert Russell Dickey Jr., onetime U.S. consular agent in Pau, France, has four children.

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He had been Italy's consular agent at Johnstown, Pa. since 1932, had not seen his own country for over 30 years.

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They number, according to the Dutch consular agent at Jeddah, thirty million souls, and are increasing rapidly both in Java and in the other islands of the Malay archipelago.

From The Future of Islam by Wilfred Scawen Blunt

Spent a most agreeable Sunday in the hospitable house of M. Fredin, the French consular agent, and his amiable and talented wife.

From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by Max O'Rell

A British consular agent is resident and the Italians maintain a vice-consul.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

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