Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of sending a legate.
- noun A diplomatic mission in a foreign country ranking below an embassy.
- noun The diplomatic minister and staff of such a mission.
- noun The premises occupied by such a mission.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sending forth; a commissioning of one or more persons to act at a distance for another or for others; the office or functions of a legate or envoy.
- noun The person or persons sent to represent a government at a foreign court; an embassy; a diplomatic minister and his suite: as, the legation of the United States at Paris.
- noun The place of business or the official abode of an embassy.
- noun Formerly, the designation of any one of those six Papal States that were governed by cardinal legates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The sending forth or commissioning one person to act for another.
- noun A legate, or envoy, and the persons associated with him in his mission; an embassy; or, in stricter usage, a diplomatic minister and his suite; a deputation.
- noun The place of business or official residence of a diplomatic minister at a foreign court or seat of government.
- noun A district under the jurisdiction of a legate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The post or office of a
legate ; alegateship . - noun A diplomatic
mission . - noun The official residence of a
diplomat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister
- noun the post or office of legate
Etymologies
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Examples
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Among the things to which special and continued attention had to be given by the legation was the Chicago Exposition.
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Minister, recalled the legation and consulate from Germany.
The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902
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The vexatious question of so-called legation asylum for offenders against the state and its laws was presented anew in Chile by the unauthorized action of the late United States minister in receiving into his official residence two persons who had just failed in an attempt at revolution and against whom criminal charges were pending growing out of a former abortive disturbance.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland 1872
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You will receive, Sir, by order of the President of the United States, as soon as they can be prepared, a medal and chain of gold, of which he desires your acceptance, in token of their esteem, and of the sensibility with which they will ever recall your legation to their memory.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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No one in Germany had remembered that Brunswick had a "legation" in Berlin.
The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler Shirer, William L 1961
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The Europeans, however, had quite different ideas about a "legation", and about the significance of permission to trade.
A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949
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At the time of the permission given to the Russians to set up a "legation", a similar office was set up (in 1729) for "Uighur" peoples (meaning
A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949
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The American legation in Budapest confirmed the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the city; the Hungarian revolution appeared to be a “fact of history.”
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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The American legation in Budapest confirmed the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the city; the Hungarian revolution appeared to be a “fact of history.”
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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She was a huge success and presided at the legation for the next seven years.
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