vice-consul
noun
vice-con·sul
ˈvīs-ˈkän(t)-səl 
ˌvīs-
: a consular officer subordinate to a consul general or to a consul
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The move was led by the mayor of the city of Gifu, the capital of the Gifu prefecture where Chiune Sugihara, the vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Kaunas/Kovno, Lithuania, who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II, was born in 1900.
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Etgar Lefkovits, Sun Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2024
Originally from Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, Gutiérrez was appointed vice-consul in October and took up her position in Southern California on March 6 after receiving training in the basics of her job: civil registration, immigration and legal issues.
—Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
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Etgar Lefkovits, Sun Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2024
Originally from Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, Gutiérrez was appointed vice-consul in October and took up her position in Southern California on March 6 after receiving training in the basics of her job: civil registration, immigration and legal issues.
—Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
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“Vice-consul.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vice-consul. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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