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minister resident

noun

, plural ministers resident.
  1. a diplomatic agent serving in a minor country and ranking next below an ambassador.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of minister resident1

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50
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Example Sentences

It is the usage here (and I suppose at all courts), that a minister resident shall establish his house in the first instant.

At the same time he recommended that the future British representative should bear the title of Minister Resident.

Under the traditional policy of the United States, the Indian agent was a minister resident to a "domestic dependent nation."

Our early diplomatic policy, eschewing all foreign entanglement, rejected the office of "minister resident."

This was the first appointment of a minister resident, since the original ones, under which all expenses were to be paid.

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