Word: legation

Category: legation

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Synonyms: legation

waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels

Translations: legation

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german
Translations:
gesandtschaft
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french
Translations:
légation
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italian
Translations:
legazione
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dutch
Translations:
legatie
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russian
Translations:
миссия
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norwegian
Translations:
legasjon
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czech
Translations:
vyslanectví
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polish
Translations:
legacja, poselstwo
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croatian
Translations:
poslanstvo
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icelandic
Translations:
sendiráð

The meaning and "use of": legation

noun
  • a diplomatic minister, especially one below the rank of ambassador, and their staff. - Neutrality itself was certainly taken too far when, on the death of Hitler, de Valera presented the state's condolences to the German legation .
  • the position or office of legate; a legateship. - Mary found herself denounced by the pope as ‘the wife of a schismatic’, Cardinal Pole's legation was revoked, and he was summoned to Rome to answer charges of heresy.

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