foreign affairs
plural noun
: matters having to do with international relations and with the interests of the home country in foreign countries
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Trump received his worst approval rating of six issues the poll asked about on inflation (33%), followed by trade (36%), civil rights (36%), jobs (38%), foreign affairs (39%) and immigration (50%).
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Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Newsweek has contacted the Hungarian foreign affairs ministry for comment via email to its press department.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
The halt at least temporarily cost some 1,000 people their jobs in Quang Tri, according to the province’s foreign affairs department.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 30 Apr. 2025
Sheinbaum invited up her minister of foreign affairs, Juan Ramón de la Fuente.
—Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
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Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Newsweek has contacted the Hungarian foreign affairs ministry for comment via email to its press department.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
The halt at least temporarily cost some 1,000 people their jobs in Quang Tri, according to the province’s foreign affairs department.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 30 Apr. 2025
Sheinbaum invited up her minister of foreign affairs, Juan Ramón de la Fuente.
—Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Foreign affairs.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foreign%20affairs. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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