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. 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.

2. 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.

3. Michael Evanoff:

   Training is the bedrock to protecting lives, if you are a trained foreign service officer and you go through the training we give you, you will be better prepared to react.

4. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper:

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

5. Marie Yovanovitch:

   We are professionals, public servants who by vocation and training pursue the policies of the President, regardless of who holds that office or what party they affiliate with, we are people who repeatedly uproot Foreign Service officers lives, who risk -- and sometimes give -- Foreign Service officers lives for this country.