Synonyms for foreign service
for·eign ser·vice

Princeton's WordNet

1. Foreign Servicenoun

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

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1. • Agency

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1. Jeremy Collins:

   He was standing there and I came and stood right next to him, and for some reason turned. In my mind's eye I stripped off the beard, and saw the Foreign Service officer I had seen in Washington, D.C. I just impulsively said, 'You're Brad Bishop, aren't you?' And he began trembling and shaking and said 'Oh God, no' and turned around. I have no doubt it was him.

2. The New York Times:

   Neither career foreign service officers nor State Department lawyers suggested that Mrs. Clinton use a department email address.

3. Michael McKinley:

   The timing of my resignation was the result of two overriding concerns : the failure in my view, of the State Department to offer support to Foreign Service employees caught up in the impeachment inquiry ; and, second, by what appears to be the utilization of our ambassadors overseas to advance domestic political objectives, to see the emerging information on the engagement of our missions to procure negative political information for domestic purposes, combined with the failure I saw in the building to provide support for our professional cadre in a particularly trying time, I think the combination was a pretty good reason to decide enough, that I had no longer a useful role to play.

4. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper:

   Ken Taylor represented the very best that Canada's foreign service has to offer.

5. Conrad Tribble:

   I would love to see the entire ceremony but we are Foreign Service officers and at some point you have to go, there's been a lot of hard work that went into this but it's the right thing to do and to wake up on a historic day is actually pretty cool.