chargé d'affaires
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head of diplomatic mission when no higher official exists
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- head of mission
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- Kadene Vassell
- female form of label
- поверенная в делах
- male form of label
- chargé d'affaires
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Persia's chargé d'affaires and his wife visiting U.S. President Woodrow Wilson at the White House in May 1913
A chargé d'affaires ( French pronunciation: [ʃaʁʒe dafɛʁ] ), plural chargés d'affaires, often shortened to chargé (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to charge-D, is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador. The term is French for "person charged with business", meaning they are responsible for the duties of an ambassador. Chargé is masculine in gender; the feminine form is chargée d'affaires (pronounced the same way).
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