Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who acts in the place of a consul; a subordinate officer to whom special consular functions are delegated in a district already under the general supervision of a consul, or to whom consular functions are assigned in a district not of sufficient importance to require the presence of a consul.
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Examples
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When Kai Bird first stayed in the hotel as a small boy in 1956, it was in Jordan, where his father was the United States vice-consul.
Lost in the Levant 2010
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When Kai Bird first stayed in the hotel as a small boy in 1956, it was in Jordan, where his father was the United States vice-consul.
Lost in the Levant 2010
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I was alarmed when it looked as though the vice-consul in Nairobi, Liliane Khadour, was going to take the fall for consular bungling and ministerial malevolence -- and that may still happen after the ministers involved get through carrying out "investigations" of their own shops.
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When Kai Bird first stayed in the hotel as a small boy in 1956, it was in Jordan, where his father was the United States vice-consul.
Lost in the Levant 2010
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After the war he was appointed the American vice-consul for religious affairs.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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Even then, as a lowly vice-consul on his first posting, he took delight in crossing social boundaries.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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In the spring of 1956, Father was appointed vice-consul at the American consulate in the Jordanian-controlled part of Jerusalem.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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In the spring of 1956, Father was appointed vice-consul at the American consulate in the Jordanian-controlled part of Jerusalem.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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A previous vice-consul, Frank Melloy, had jocularly labeled the flares “The flames of Hell!”
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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What the aristocratic Nusseibeh did not know was that even then the vice-consul who stood before him was in debt and living from paycheck to paycheck.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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