viceconsul

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

viceconsul (plural viceconsuls)

  1. Alternative form of vice-consul
    • 1926, Engelbert JORISSEN, Japan and the Japanese as seen and interpreted by Wenceslau de Moraes in his "Glimpse of the Japanese Soul":
      From Macao he had visited Japan in 1889, 1894 and in 1895 as a Portuguese officer, before he was appointed Portuguese viceconsul and consul in Japan (Kobe) in 1899, a position which he held up to 1913, when he resigned not without a dramatic effect.
    • 1984, Douglas W. Richmond, “Confrontation and Reconciliation: Mexicans and Spaniards during the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920”, in The Americas, volume 41, number 2:
      When peons attacked Spanish ranches and forced the owners to flee for their lives, the Mexican foreign relations secretariat responded to protests from the Spanish viceconsul by asking the governor of Coahuila to "use whatever means that are available" to avoid further conflict.
    • 2012, Valters Ščerbinskis, “Latvia and Georgia Before and During Soviet Invasion of 1921”, in Civilization Researches (UNESCO), page 8:
      For instance, several tens of Latvians lived in 1921 in Batumi and the surrounding area, almost all of them, according to the Estonian viceconsul Oskar Blumberg, were poor and helpless.
    • 2013, Rawdon Lubbock Brown, Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, Relating to English Affairs, →ISBN:
      Be it put to the ballot, that the viceconsul in London be written to, and sent to express, to transmit, within one month at the farthest after the receipt of this mandate, a written statement of all the reckonings, debtors, creditors, and ledgers of the factory.

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French vice-consul. By surface analysis, vice- +‎ consul.

Noun[edit]

viceconsul m (plural viceconsuli)

  1. vice-consul

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