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vice-consulship

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The office or duties of a vice-consul.

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Examples

  • The gentleman, who was an unsalaried vice-consul, appalled at the number of interrogatories, immediately replied, “That he had his own business to attend to; he could not sit down to compose consular returns, which would require weeks of labour; and if it were considered part of his duties to answer such questions, he begged to resign at once his vice-consulship.”

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • A consulship, or vice-consulship abroad, for instance.

    Verner's Pride Henry Wood 1850

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