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‖ chargé and more fully chargé d'affaires.|ʃarʒe dafɛr|
[F.; = (one) ‘charged’ or in charge of affairs.]
1. A minister who transacts diplomatic business at a foreign court during the temporary absence of the ambassador; also, the representative of a country at a less important foreign court, to which a diplomatist of higher grade is not appointed.
1767W. Musgrave Let. 22 Dec. in Hist. MSS. Comm. (1897) 15th Rep. App. VI. 222 And conclude it [the ceremony] will be sent with your Ribband to the Chargé des Affaires at Turin to serve as a precedent for your Investiture. 1768Chesterfield Let. 12 Apr. (1932) VI. 2845 Keith is rather inclined to go to Turin, as Chargé d'Affaires. 1819Acts U.S. 15th Congr. 56 The Charge des Affaires at London, the Hague and Stockholm. 1836Mrs. S. C. Stevenson Let. 13 July in E. Boykin Victoria, Albert, & Mrs. S. (1957) 17 Mr. Vail's function as Chargé ceases on the day of the Minister's presentation. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. VI. 547 Garnier, French chargé at London. 1878Morley Diderot II. 111 Gunning, the English chargé d'affaires. 1914E. A. Powell Fighting in Flanders iv. 97 The Swedish and Mexican chargés. 1966G. Greene Comedians i. iv. 112 The chargé would have disapproved of my cuckolding a member of the diplomatic corps.
2. gen. Man or officer in charge (for the time).
1797Scott Let. 8 Mar. (1932) I. 64, I have the honour to be Secretary & Chargé d'affaires to the Royal Corps of Edinr. Volunteer light Dragoons. 1826F. Reynolds Life & Times I. v. 174 To be selected as the family man of business—the chargé d'affaires on a grand mission. 1850Thackeray Pendennis xlvi, The ‘Pall Mall Gazette’, of which he acted as the editor and chargé-d'affaires during the temporary absence of the chief. |