FOREIGN SERVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Foreign Service mean? 

• FOREIGN SERVICE (noun)
  The noun FOREIGN SERVICE has 1 sense:

1. the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world

  Familiarity information: FOREIGN SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREIGN SERVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Foreign Service" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Domain member category:

accredit (provide or send (envoys or embassadors) with official credentials)

Holonyms ("Foreign Service" is a part of...):

Department of State; DoS; State; State Department; United States Department of State (the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies)

 Context examples 

He is desirous to be a true Swiss and to enter into foreign service, but we cannot part with him, at least until his elder brother returns to us.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Your new contacts and friends may include ambassadors, diplomats, others who work in the foreign service or government, university professors, journalists and producers, bureau chiefs from publishing and TV networks, and business people who deal with ideas, communication, and negotiation.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)