chef de mission
/ʃɛf də miːˈsjɒn
/noun (plural chefs de mission)
1The person in charge of a national team at an international sports event: the chef de mission for Team GB he was Australia’s chef de mission at the London Olympics...
- The Scotland team's chef de mission put the medal success down to team spirit.
- Then the distribution of the tickets has, in the words of one team chef de mission become "a complete nightmare".
- The Malaysian chef de mission said his team also hoped to win one or two golds in badminton.
2The head of a diplomatic mission: he was chef de mission at the embassy a decade ago...
- Those included in the program are 10 ambassadors, one charge d' affaires, six consul generals and seven deputy chefs de mission.
- Every one of the foreign chefs de mission accredited to the German Government attended the ceremony.
- The government summoned the US embassy's deputy chef de mission on Saturday to express "strong dissatisfaction" over the US comments.
Origin
French, literally 'chief of mission'.