attaché

noun

Definition of attachénext
1
as in briefcase

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2
as in consul

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  1. briefcase
  2. consul
  3. valise
  4. diplomat
  5. wallet
  6. foreign minister
  7. portmanteau
  8. procurator
Noun
  • Attention now turns to Wednesday’s Budget to see if Healey will pull a surprise announcement out his red briefcase to secure the facility’s future.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Each briefcase-size unit plugs right into an outlet and communicates with its Pila peers through a mesh network.
    — Richard Eisenberg, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of briefcase
Noun
  • The consul’s office did not immediately confirm whether Bolsonaro and his family had sought diplomatic assistance or visited their facilities on Wednesday.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Bashar Fawadleh, the parish priest of Taybeh Church, said the diplomats had come to join farmers picking olives, and that settlers who stole olives from the trees beat up several members of the mission and attacked the Belgian consul’s car.
    — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of consul
Noun
  • But in Vienna, Pollak kept a mistress, and Milena had to take a job porting valises at the train station just to make ends meet.
    — Christine Estima September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • That a kindly bellhop from The Balmoral, our hotel adjacent to the station, loaded our valises off a trolley cart did little to rein in these trappings.
    — Ross Kenneth Urken, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 May 2024
Definition of valise
Noun
  • Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attended the conference along with diplomats from ex-Soviet nations, China and other countries.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Continue reading … 'ABOUT TO GO DOWN' — Waltz reveals new details leading up to heated clash at UN with Cuban diplomat.
    — , FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of diplomat
Noun
  • Long-standing registrations with financial services, marketplaces, e-wallets, subscription platforms or professional tools add useful context.
    — Artem Lalaiants, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • On Tuesday, Elliptic reported the group has made more than 40,000 transactions, creating a new wallet every 25 seconds.
    — Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of wallet
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Rodríguez is already signaling an interest in working with Washington, despite some of her public rhetoric, tapping former opposition aide Oliver Blanco as foreign minister.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Tedros, an ethnic Tigrayan, served as Ethiopia’s foreign minister and health minister when the Tigray People’s Liberation Front dominated the country’s ruling coalition.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of foreign minister
Noun
  • The name is a portmanteau of Goa trance, a subgenre of electronic music designer Carl Blakeslee had been listening to while working on the boot, and the Lava Dome silhouette that served as a precursor to ACG.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The Rare Beauty product launch -- a set of two liquid blushes -- is even named the Delena, after their friendship portmanteau.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of portmanteau
Noun
  • Andrei Vyshinsky, procurator general in the 1930s, had overseen Stalin’s horrendous purges of millions of ordinary citizens – plus most of the members of the Communist Party Central Committee and top Soviet generals.
    — Peter Bridges, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The procurator of Roman Britain, Catus Decianus, ordered an extra two hundred men to Camulodunum and figured the problem was solved.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 14 May 2021
Definition of procurator
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