minister resident
Americannoun
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ministers resident
plural
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Etymology
Origin of minister resident
An Americanism dating back to 1840–50
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The courtiers with all their talents for dissembling could not conceal their hostile feelings from the British minister resident among them.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
Mr. Morris, our minister resident at Constantinople, will be informed of the particulars set forth in your dispatch, and of the approval of your proceedings.
From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II by William James Stillman
Adams, without giving them an inkling of his intention, sent to the Senate the name of William Vans Murray, minister resident at The Hague, to confirm as envoy extraordinary to France.
From The Conqueror by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
About 1650, Varnar, the Dutch minister resident at the Ottoman Porte, published a treatise on coffee.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
This was the first appointment of a minister resident, since the original ones, under which all expenses were to be paid.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
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