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chargé

chargé is the ellipsis of chargé d'affaires.

Meaning of chargé d'affaires

Noun

chargé d'affaires (plural chargés d'affaires)

  1. 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.

Proper noun capitalized: Chargé

Chargé

  1. A commune of Indre-et-Loire department, France.

Forms of chargé

pluralchargés

Phrases with chargé

Questions about chargé

What does chargé mean?
Chargé means a commune of Indre-et-Loire department, France.
What is chargé the ellipsis of?
Chargé is the ellipsis of chargé d'affaires.
What part of speech is chargé?
Chargé is a proper noun.

Words near chargé in the dictionary

  1. chargrilling
  2. chargrills
  3. chargrin
  4. chargul
  5. charguls
  6. chargé
  7. chargé d'affaires
  8. chargés
  9. chargés d'affaires
  10. Chari
  11. charickter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chargé (page history and authors); Chargé (page history and authors); chargé d'affaires (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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