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foreign affairs

foreign affairs noun: matters or news occurring abroad.

Noun

foreign affairs pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Matters or news occurring abroad.
  2. (plural, plural-only) Policy of a government in dealing with other countries or with activities overseas.
  3. (plural, plural-only) A government office or department charged with handling relations with other countries.
  4. (plural, plural-only) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see foreign, affairs.
    • Most of the twelve Caesars were rumored to have been licentious as both adulterers and homosexuals (not that the two were mutually exclusive, as will be seen), and Gaius and Nero were both supposed to have been adulterers, active homosexuals, and pathics. According to Suetonius, Julius Caesar was...1992, Amy Richlin, The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor, revised edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 88

foreign affairs meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Tagalog

foreign affairs in Hindi

department
विदेश मंत्रालय videś mantrālay

foreign affairs in Tamil

department
வெளியுறவுத்துறை veḷiyuṟavuttuṟai

foreign affairs in Urdu

department
وِزارَتِ خارِجَہ vizārat-i xārija

foreign affairs in Tagalog

department
ugnayang panlabas
More languagesFewer languages
foreign affairs in Arabic
وِزَارَةُ الْخَارِجِيَّة wizāratu l-ḵārijiyya
foreign affairs in Malay
kementerian hal ehwal luar negeri
foreign affairs in Indonesian
kementerian luar negeri
foreign affairs in Thai
กระทรวงการต่างประเทศ
foreign affairs in Vietnamese
ngoại giao, bộ ngoại giao

Questions about foreign affairs

What does foreign affairs mean?
Foreign affairs means matters or news occurring abroad.
What is foreign affairs in Hindi?
Foreign affairs in Hindi is विदेश मंत्रालय (videś mantrālay). See Foreign affairs meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is foreign affairs?
Foreign affairs is a noun.

Words near foreign affairs in the dictionary

  1. forehouse
  2. forehouses
  3. foreign
  4. foreign accent syndrome
  5. foreign accent syndromes
  6. foreign affairs
  7. foreign agent
  8. foreign agents
  9. foreign aid
  10. foreign aids
  11. foreign bodies

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