attache
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7.9
- noun
- /ˌætəˈʃeɪ/
- Formal
- He's the cultural attache to Greece.
- military attache
- Japanese military attache
- U.S. attache
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- So they had set me up with a contact who was like their attache to the UAE and he was like building roads in Somaliland.
- Elsa Bronstrom was born in Saint Petersburg to the Swedish military attache to Russia.
Examples
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In March 1885, he was given an attache position with the Swedish-Norwegian foreign service.
Academic text (1999) -
Defense attache offices are slowly being established throughout the area.
Academic text (1996) -
Everybody in Washington knows that you are not a commercial attache.
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I was once our naval attache in Washington.
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The major wishes to see the attache.
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He told us he was a cultural attache.
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I was military attache in my country's embassy in London.
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We suggest the military attache to the Swedish legation.
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Alexsey Polyakov, cultural attache here in London.
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The cultural attache organized a series of events to promote local art in the embassy.
Synonyms
222
3.6
An official person who represents their country abroad and negotiates with other countries
75
6.6
A person sent by a government to talk and make agreements with another country
2
7.4
A person at an embassy who advises on and represents the armed forces
2
7.5
A diplomat at an embassy who promotes their country's culture to the host country
1
8.1
A navy officer at an embassy who represents their country to the host navy
1
7.2
A person who a government or organization sends to speak for it at official meetings
1
9.6
A government official sent on a special diplomatic mission with lower rank than an ambassador
1
9.3
A military officer at an embassy who advises on air force matters
1
7.5
A military officer who works at an embassy and represents their country's army
Compounds
- Formal
2
7.5
A diplomat at an embassy who promotes their country's culture to the host country
- Formal
1
8.1
A navy officer at an embassy who represents their country to the host navy
- Formal
1
7.5
A military officer who works at an embassy and represents their country's army
How Senior
- Formal
907
3.7
- Formal
3
4.2
75
6.6
- Formal
12
7.9
177
2.4
Surface Forms
Etymology
Attache for the embassy worker comes from the French attaché, meaning 'attached', because the person is 'attached' to an embassy as an expert in a certain area. That's why a military or cultural attache is an expert sent to work with an embassy.