chancellery

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noun chan·cel·lery \ ˈchan(t)-s(ə-)lə-rē , -səl-rē \

variants: or chancellory

Definition of chancellery

plural chancelleries or chancellories

1 a :the position, court, or department of a chancellor

b :the building or room where a chancellor's office is located

2 :the office of secretary of the court of a person high in authority

3 :the office or staff of an embassy or consulate

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The prime minister will speak at the State Chancellery this afternoon.
greeted by members of the chancellery

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Indeed, in the chancellery itself, no Russians worked above the fourth floor in the roughly 10-story building, former Russian employees said.

— neil macfarquhar, New York Times, "After Russia’s Retaliation, Embassy Workers Brace for a ‘Shock to the System’," 31 July 2017
And it was further inflamed Tuesday … when Trump fired a white-hot shot straight at Berlin’s glass-and-concrete chancellery.

— james hohmann, Washington Post, "The Daily 202: The GOP's invisible agenda," 31 May 2017
Replacing U.S. Ahead of the Brussels meeting, Merkel received Li at the chancellery in Berlin for talks on Wednesday.

— marine strauss, Bloomberg.com, "China, EU Said to Uphold Climate Pact in Rebuff to Trump," 31 May 2017
Replacing U.S. Ahead of the Brussels meeting, Merkel received Li at the chancellery in Berlin for talks on Wednesday.

— marine strauss, Bloomberg.com, "China, EU Said to Uphold Climate Pact in Rebuff to Trump," 31 May 2017
And it was further inflamed Tuesday at 6:40 a.m. Washington time when Trump fired a white-hot shot straight at Berlin's glass-and-concrete chancellery.

— michael birnbaum and rick noack, chicagotribune.com, "Germans perplexed as Trump escalates feud with Berlin," 30 May 2017
And it was further enflamed Tuesday at 6:40 a.m. Washington time when Trump fired a white-hot shot straight at Berlin’s glass-and-concrete chancellery.

— michael birnbaum and rick noack, Washington Post, "Germans perplexed as Trump escalates feud," 30 May 2017
The group that has been leading weekly pro-EU rallies since last fall in a rare burst of Euro-optimism gathered, fittingly, outside the German chancellery Monday as President Macron arrived in Berlin for his first trip abroad.

— sara miller llana, The Christian Science Monitor, "In Macron, Germany sees an opportunity to aid France – and boost the EU," 16 May 2017
The position of president is largely ceremonial in Austria, with most of the country's political power held in the parliament and the chancellery.

— adam taylor, Washington Post, "Austria’s president suggested that every woman should wear a headscarf to fight Islamophobia," 28 Apr. 2017

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: the department of a chancellor or the building where a chancellor's office is located
: the people who work in the department of a chancellor

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