foreign minister
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈfɔrɪn ˈmɪnɪstər/
- Formal
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ministro de Asuntos Exteriores (ES)
- After the election, she was appointed as the new foreign minister of the country.
- meeting of foreign ministers
- deputy foreign minister
- former foreign minister
Now is this guy foreign Minister or Kiev's morning DJ?
- Now is this guy foreign Minister or Kiev's morning DJ?
- And then you had the foreign minister, Amir Abdullah Kian.
- He was the former Ethiopian foreign minister and health minister.
- So next month Lloyd George and Poincare meet with Italian foreign minister Sonino and Minister Orlando.
- So in a few days, von Kuhlmann will resign as foreign minister.
- Trotsky then became a foreign minister.
- I would like to quote from Shalom O Benami, the former Israeli foreign minister and a member of Israel's delegation.
- We were both in the green room back there talking about comments by the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, which sounded ominous.
- And here I am today, invited by the Germans at the Jewish Museum of Warsaw in the presence of the Polish foreign minister.
- One of them is the foreign minister, Marcelo Abrard, which I think is a great foreign minister, but I'm not sure if it's the right president.
- And this is because one of the foreign ministers in Ukraine in an interview suggested that Russia is slowly piece by piece, inch by inch, taking more land.
- Their her great grandfather was like foreign minister, minister exterior for Cuba.
Examples
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Our most respected foreign minister since Palmerston.
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We were met at the airport by the Tatar foreign minister.
Fiction book (2001) -
I would ask you to remain as foreign minister.
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I know your brother, the foreign minister.
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The only hope is to appeal to the foreign minister.
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Gene, call the foreign minister.
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The foreign minister who was instrumental in this union.
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If you will give me a copy of the letter, I will have the foreign minister prepare a reply.
Fiction book (1999) -
If he so desires, the Polish foreign minister can also discuss questions connected with the border issue.
Academic text (1990) -
He was the former Ethiopian foreign minister and health minister.
Synonyms
89
3.2
A senior government minister who leads a country's foreign relations
How Senior
- Formal
195
3.5
658
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'foreign' (relating to other countries) with 'minister' (a government official), yielding an official responsible for international affairs. This adjectival+noun composition is common across languages and follows standard lexical composition patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Foreign minister comes from a simple job image: a government minister who deals with foreign matters. A minister is an official who serves the government and foreign means 'other countries', so the foreign minister is 'in charge of' talks with other countries.