单词 | attaché |
释义 | attachén. 1. A person on the staff of another person, establishment, or organization; spec. a person on the staff of an ambassador, having a specialized area of responsibility.cultural attaché, military attaché, press attaché: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > other diplomatic officers chancellor1788 attaché1827 press attaché1898 counsellor1914 cultural attaché1937 1827 G. Keppel Personal Narr. Trav. Babylonia xxiv. 326 An attaché to the embassy, being on his journey from St. Petersburgh to Moscow, had been..delayed on the road for the want of horses. 1859 D. Masson Life Milton I. 404 [He] had come up to London and become an attaché of the court. 1883 Scottish Rev. Sept. 282 The attachés of a leading daily paper in New York. 1925 Amer. Mercury Aug. 430/1 Court attaches say at least a year will be required to hear the cases. 1958 M. Barnes tr. M. Levaillant Passionate Exiles v. 68 Asking the Ministry that..one of the first administrative posts to be created in the train of the army should be reserved for the young attaché. 2002 N.Y. Mag. 3 June 41 (advt.) We do everything to ensure the utmost in privacy—massages in your suite, a Personal Attaché for your shopping [etc.]. 2. Originally and chiefly North American. = attaché case n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > case or container > [noun] > for documents paper-case1679 serviette1891 attaché case1904 brief-case1926 document case1936 business case1938 attaché1972 1972 U.S. News & World Rep. 10 Apr. 88 (advt.) The attaché case's attaché case... Other Samsonite attachés start at $21. 1973 Rotarian Nov. 7/2 (advt.) Whether travelling by jet or car, overseas or overnight—just pack your clothes, grab your ‘executive valet’ and go! (It fits neatly inside your attache or suitcase.) 1985 S. Stein Touch of Treason ii. 12 Perry slipped his papers back into the attaché, closed the case. 1997 V. Chandra Love & Longing in Bombay (1998) 226 Her attaché has stencilling on it. Derivatives aˈttachéship n. military attachéship: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > other diplomatic officers > position of attachéship1834 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 440/1 Attachéship is..too onerous a calling for any man to adopt. 1914 F. W. Wile Men around Kaiser xv. 123 His rise..from an humble attacheship to the Foreign Secretaryship. 2002 D. Brown Palmerston & Politics of Foreign Policy iii. 59 Constitutionally certain appointments, such as attachéships, were exclusively in the gift of the Foreign Secretary. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1827 |
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