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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

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The consular agent here is a man named Quay, and he and I have been in the commission business together.

From Captain Macklin by Davis, Richard Harding

I’ll wire the American consular agent there to have them shadowed when they leave the train.

From The Blue Grass Seminary Girls on the Water Exciting Adventures on a Summer Cruise Through the Panama Canal by Burnett, Carolyn Judson

The vote passed in favour of Magnesia; partly because we expected in that place to find, through the good offices of the consular agent, decent quarters in some Greek house.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various