attaché

noun

Definition of attachénext
1
as in briefcase

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2
as in consul

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for attaché
  1. briefcase
  2. consul
  3. diplomat
  4. valise
  5. foreign minister
  6. wallet
  7. procurator
  8. portmanteau
Noun
  • In Deal or No Deal Island, briefcases are hidden around an island with more than $200 million in prize money split between them.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2024
  • An increasingly paranoid Jax is bullying Tiffany Stratton, who will inevitably turn babyface and cash in her Money in the Bank briefcase.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
Definition of briefcase
Noun
  • The conflict took place while Rome’s consuls were waging a military campaign elsewhere.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The deeper characters in this production are her maid, Suzuki, and Sharpless, the American consul.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
Definition of consul
Noun
  • Abdel Kareem Hana / AP The two diplomats told NBC News that Hamas was also asked to leave Qatar and relocate to Turkey in April.
    Keir Simmons, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
  • Canada and India have expelled top diplomats from each other's countries over the allegations, which Indian officials deny.
    Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of diplomat
Noun
  • That a kindly bellhop from The Balmoral, our hotel adjacent to the station, loaded our valises off a trolley cart did little to rein in these trappings.
    Ross Kenneth Urken, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 May 2024
  • For the kind of hopeful young women who once packed their sashes in their valises and got on the bus to come to Hollywood, only to find a hundred other small-town beauty queens already here, a pageant crown no longer has to be their only onramp to mobility and even cinema celebrity.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
Definition of valise
Noun
  • Canada’s foreign minister on Monday noted that India is cooperating with U.S. officials and can do it with Canada as well.
    Rob Gillies, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, has reportedly been nominated by Netanyahu as Gallant’s replacement.
    Laura Kelly, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of foreign minister
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  • Wendy’s has been capturing the attention (and wallets) of customers with quirky, limited-time promotions like its SpongeBob KrappyPatty burger and Pineapple Under the Sea Frosty.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Concession stands incorporate facial recognition to allow fans who have linked their wallets to the arena’s app to walk in and out, bypassing registers.
    Andrew Greif, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of wallet
Noun
  • Andrei Vyshinsky, procurator general in the 1930s, had overseen Stalin’s horrendous purges of millions of ordinary citizens – plus most of the members of the Communist Party Central Committee and top Soviet generals.
    Peter Bridges, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The procurator of Roman Britain, Catus Decianus, ordered an extra two hundred men to Camulodunum and figured the problem was solved.
    Anne Thériault, Longreads, 14 May 2021
Definition of procurator
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  • In 1931, Paul's son Richard joined the company – Rimowa is a portmanteau of his name and Warenzeichen, the German term for trademark – and not long after, in 1937, the family embraced aluminium as a core material.
    Felix Bischof, theweek, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Princeton’s Phresh Lemonade — a portmanteau of the initials of his first and last name — went from lemonade stand to a food trailer.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of portmanteau
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