attaché

noun

Definition of attachénext
1
as in briefcase

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as in consul

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  1. briefcase
  2. consul
  3. diplomat
  4. valise
  5. foreign minister
  6. wallet
  7. procurator
  8. portmanteau
Noun
  • In each episode, players compete in challenges to secure the briefcases that will be used in that night’s game of Deal or No Deal.
    Peter White, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Whichever team secures the lowest total is up for elimination, and whoever gets the highest-value briefcase gets to choose the first person to face the banker.
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of briefcase
Noun
  • Kate Leonard, the honorary consul of Japan in San Diego, encouraged me to apply after reading my Mother’s Day opinion essay in The San Diego Union-Tribune.
    Eva Kurima, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
  • In 2022, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists found 500 current and former honorary consuls had been accused of crimes or embroiled in controversy.
    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of consul
Noun
  • He’s known to the military, and now, he’s known to the diplomats and politicians, and will be known to President Trump and others over time.
    Efrat Lachter, Fox News, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Yet he is now celebrated as an unrivaled defender of democracy, a globe-trotting (if occasionally freelancing) diplomat.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of diplomat
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  • Plus, the strangest news from across the world Read On Best Visit G&T Garden Tours Aficionados of English gardens, pack your valises for one of G&T Garden Tours’ week-long trips to the West Country.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 23 Mar. 2024
  • 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
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  • After the Assad ouster, Qatar sent its foreign minister to Damascus in late December, the highest-level government official from the Gulf to meet with the transitional government.
    Ismaeel Naar, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Its foreign minister in 2021 famously held a speech in thigh-high water to steer attention to the island's plight, expressing the feeling of desperation many in the region share.
    Katharina Buchholz, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of foreign minister
Noun
  • Inflation has been arguably the most important subject surrounding the U.S. economy for four years, not only impacting consumers’ wallets but also policy, as the Fed hiked interest rates to their highest level since the mid-2000s, making borrowing from mortgages to corporate loans more expensive.
    Derek Saul, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The best thing about both cases is the card wallet on the back of the slim case.
    Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of wallet
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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  • Stories have mingled love and magic for centuries, but the portmanteau crystallized as a market category during the pandemic.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The track also features rapper Yuno Miles and was included in his second studio album, Vultures 2, by his ¥$ portmanteau group with Ty Dolla $ign.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of portmanteau
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