chargé d'affaires

See also: charge d'affaires

English

Alternative forms

• charge d'affaires

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French chargé d’affaires (literally “[one] charged with matters”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃɑrˈʒeɪ dəˈfɛɹ/

Noun

chargé d'affaires (plural chargés d'affaires)

1. (diplomacy) A diplomat, ranking below an ambassador, who heads a diplomatic mission when no ambassador is present, either temporarily (in the interim between the departure of one ambassador and the accreditation of another) or for an extended time.

Related terms

• chargée d'affaires (if the diplomat is female)

Translations

diplomat

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 代辦／代办 (zh) (dàibàn)

• Czech: chargé d'affaires m
• Esperanto: aferŝarĝito
• Finnish: asiainhoitaja (fi)
• French: chargé d’affaires (fr) m, chargée d’affaires (fr) f
• Georgian: საქმეთა რწმუნებული (sakmeta rc̣munebuli)
• German: Geschäftsträger m, Geschäftsträgerin f
• Italian: incaricato d'affari m
• Japanese: 代理大使 (だいりたいし, dairi taishi) (embassy), 代理公使 (だいりこうし, dairi kōshi) (legation)
• Khmer: ភារធារី (km) (phea reak thea ri)
• Korean: 대리대사(代理大使) (daeridaesa) (embassy), 대리공사(代理公使) (daerigongsa) (legation)
• Macedonian: о́тправник m (ótpravnik)
• Persian: شارژدافر (šâržedâfer), کاردار (fa) (kârdâr)
• Polish: chargé d'affaires (pl) m
• Portuguese: encarregado de negócios m
• Romanian: însărcinat cu afaceri (ro) m
• Russian: пове́ренный в дела́х m (povérennyj v deláx), пове́ренная в дела́х f (povérennaja v deláx)
• Spanish: encargado de negocios m
• Swedish: chargé-d'affaires (sv) c
• Turkish: maslahatgüzar (tr)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʁ.ʒe d‿a.fɛʁ/

Noun

chargé d’affaires m (plural chargés d’affaires)

1. chargé d'affaires

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French chargé d’affaires.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʂarˈʐɛ daˈfɛr/
• Rhymes: -afɛr

Noun

chargé d'affaires m pers (indeclinable)

1. (diplomacy, politics) chargé d'affaires (diplomat, ranking below an ambassador, who heads a diplomatic mission when no ambassador is present, either temporarily (in the interim between the departure of one ambassador and the accreditation of another) or for an extended time)

Further reading

• chargé d’affaires in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• chargé d’affaires in PWN's encyclopedia