foreign affairs

plural noun

: matters having to do with international relations and with the interests of the home country in foreign countries compare internal affairs

Examples of foreign affairs in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov, meanwhile, said that European representatives won’t be invited to the meeting. — ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026

The Financial Times’ chief foreign affairs commentator explores a geopolitical twilight in which the three nations with the largest nuclear arsenals are led by strongmen, allowing autocrats to exploit new gaps in the global political order. — Mary Lawrence Ware, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2026

Jackson has struggled at times to talk about foreign affairs or federal policy issues, like detailing how to pay for Medicare for All in a conversation with CNN’s Dana Bash in mid-October. — Julia Terruso, Time, 26 Oct. 2026

In an interview Tuesday with CBS News, Ambassador Marwan Ali Noman, political adviser to the minister of foreign affairs of the government of Yemen, warned that the Houthis would continue expanding their attacks unless confronted. — Olivia Gazis, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1611, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for foreign affairs

• concessionaires
• affaires
• armchairs
• compares
• crosshairs
• declares
• despairs
• downstairs
• forbears
• forebears
• housewares
• impairs