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Crosswords: D'AFFAIRES |
| English words defined with "D'AFFAIRES": Charges d'affaires, Chargeship. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Consignee | Diplomatist, diplomat(e), corps diplomatique, embassy; ambassador, embassador; representative, resident, consul, legate, nuncio, internuncio, charge d'affaires, attache. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ma femme... homme d'affaires (1932) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, left, former President of the Reichsbank of Germany, photographed at the White House in Washington where he was received by President Hoover. Dr. O.C. Kiep, right, Charge d'Affaires of the German Embassy introduced Dr. Schacht. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Kuwait | The Vatican mission in the country was upgraded from charge d'affaires to Ambassadorial status in September. (references) |
Economic History | Grenada | The embassy in Grenada is staffed by a charge d'affaires who reports to the ambassador in Bridgetown. (references) |
Eritrea | On April 27, 1993, the U.S. recognized Eritrea as an independent state, and on June 11, diplomatic relations were established, with a charge d'affaires. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | A charge' d'affaires has been received from the independent Government of Brazil. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | In consequence of the illness of the charge d'affaires appointed to Central America at the last session of Congress, he was prevented from proceeding on his mission until the month of October. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "D'AFFAIRES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "D'AFFAIRES" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "D'AFFAIRES": chargé d'affaires ♦ Charg'e d'affaires ♦ charge d'affaires ♦ Charg'es d'affaires. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "D'AFFAIRES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i ngarkuari me punë (charge d'affaires). (various references) | |
Arabic | قائم بالأعمال (charge d'affaires), القائم بإعمال السفارة (charge d'affaires). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шарже д'афер (charge d'affaires), заместник-посланик (charge d'affaires). (various references) | |
Czech | zástupce ambasadora (charge d'affaires), chargé ï affaires (charge d'affaires). (various references) | |
Danish | chargé d'affaires (Chargé d'Affaires). (various references) | |
Dutch | Zaakgelastigde (Chargé d'Affaires), Tijdelijk Zaakgelastigde (Chargé d'Affaires ad interim). (various references) | |
Finnish | asiainhoitaja (chargé d'affaires). (various references) | |
French | Chargé d'affaires ad interim (Chargé d'Affaires ad interim), chargé d'affaires (charge d'affaires). (various references) | |
German | Geschäftsträger ad interim (Chargé d'Affaires ad interim), Geschäftsträger (charge d'affaires). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ממו " (appointee, charge d'affaires, nominee, officer in charge, superior, trustee). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ügyvivõ (charge d'affaires). (various references) | |
Italian | incaricato d'affari (charge d'affaires). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 代理公使 (charge d'affaires of a legation), 代理大使 (charge d'affaires of embassy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いりたいし (charge d'affaires of embassy), いり"うし (charge d'affaires of a legation). (various references) | |
Portuguese | encarregado de negócios (Chargé d'Affaires), agente diplomático (charge d'affaires). (various references) | |
Russian | поверенный в делах (charge d'affaires, charge d'affairs), charge's d'affaires поверенный в делах (charge d'affaires). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | otpravnik poslova (charge d'affaires). (various references) | |
Spanish | encargado de negocios (charge d'affaires), comerciante (bargainer, businessman, charge d'affaires, dealer, entrepreneur, handler, merchandiser, merchandizer, merchant, seller, trader). (various references) | |
Swedish | charge d'affaires (charge d'affaires). (various references) | |
Turkish | maslahatgüzar (charge d'affaires), işgüder (charge d'affaires). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-a-a-d-e-f-f-i-r-s" | |
-2 letters: affaires, faradise, safaried. | |
-3 letters: affaire, affairs, daffier, differs, farside, raffias. | |
-4 letters: afeard, affair, afraid, aiders, deairs, differ, draffs, faders, faired, farads, ferias, fifers, fraise, irades, raffia, raised, redias, resaid, riffed, safari. | |
-5 letters: afars, afire, aider, aides, aired, areas, arias, arise, aside, daffs, dares, deair, dears, defis, draff, dries, fader, fades, fairs, farad, fards, fared. | |
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