Legation synonyms

lĭ-gā'shən

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committee
A person or group of people who are members of a larger body or organization and are appointed or elected by the body or organization to consider, investigate, or make recommendations concerning a particular subject or to carry out some other duty delegated to it by the body or organization on an ad hoc or permanent basis.
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deputation
The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.
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assignment
Assignment means the act of choosing someone to take a position of great responsibility.
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commission (related)
The act of committing or perpetrating:
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delegation (related)
The definition of a delegation is a group of people who have been tasked with a specific job or given a specific purpose, or the act of assigning a specific task or purpose to a person or group of people.
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installation (related)
The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained minister in a parish.
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mission
A Christian church or congregation with no cleric of its own that depends for support on a larger religious organization.
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politics (related)
Political life:
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legateship
The office or authority of a legate.
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foreign mission
A religious, esp. Christian, mission sent by a church to do missionary work esp. in a non-Christian country
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consul-general (related)
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vice-consul (related)
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embassy (related)
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attaché (related)
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consulate (related)
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  • The rest of the Europeans crowded into the British legation for their own safety.

  • At intervals from 1793 to 1801 Lang was closely connected with the Prussian statesman Hardenberg, who employed him as his private secretary and archivist, and in 1 797 he was present with Hardenberg at the congress of Rastadt as secretary to the legation.

  • By the institution of the special mission of Lord Ashburton, however, the direct negotiations between the two governments were, about the time of Everett's arrival in London, transferred to Washington, though much business was transacted at the American legation in London.

  • He succeeded, however, in obtaining priest's orders at Rome in 1832, and returned to Ireland, but subsequently went to London, officiating for some time in the chapel of the Bavarian Legation.

  • To these may be added a series of short essays, entitled Discorsi politici, composed during Guicciardini's Spanish legation.

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