foreign minister

noun

: a governmental minister for foreign affairs

Examples of foreign minister in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The verdict implicated Iran’s foreign minister, intelligence minister, then-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024 The Cuban foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez, said the gesture was showed solidarity with Mexico. Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024 Today’s Paper | Subscribe Our Coverage of the War in Ukraine News and Analysis China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, and Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, met in Beijing. Emile Ducke Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024 Yet last week, Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, pledged to increase imports of high-quality products and services from France, following a meeting with French foreign minister Stéphane Séjourné in Beijing. Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 8 Apr. 2024 In the summer of 1922, Germany’s foreign minister, Walter Rathenau, was assassinated by right-wing army officers. Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024 And El Salvador's foreign minister, Alexandra Hill Tinoco, posted Wednesday on X that one Salvadoran citizen, Miguel Luna, was among the missing workers. Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Mar. 2024 Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry last week called for Israel to open them. Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024 Two of his sons have applied for Italian passports, prompting the country’s foreign minister to publicly deny that Mr. Bolsonaro, who has Italian heritage, had also sought citizenship. Paulo Motoryn, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1678, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of foreign minister was in 1678

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“Foreign minister.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foreign%20minister. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.

Kids Definition

foreign minister

noun
: a government minister for foreign affairs

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