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.

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consular agent British  

noun

1. a consul of one of the lower grades

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Example Sentences

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

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

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

Mr. Thayer, the American Consul-General, gives me letters to every consular agent depending on him; and two Coptic merchants whom I met at the fantasia have already begged me to ‘honour their houses.’

From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet

The French residents, their consul, and even the English consular agent, were Catholics.

From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Anderson, Rufus