vice-consul

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1. A consular officer who reports directly to the consul general or to the consul.

   The vice-consul was too deeply involved for his own good.

   2012, Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice, →ISBN

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   The French consul was there, and the vice-consul of the United States, as well as Gilbert and the Chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.

   2012, Christopher New, Shanghai, →ISBN

   Lanny had fixed it up with the right man in O.S.S. that Faulkner was to get a radio message through the vice-consul in Casablanca, telling him that when “Tutor” appeared, he was to drop his other work and follow orders.

   2016, Upton Sinclair, Presidential Mission, →ISBN

2. The office held by a vice-consul.

   Ernest Hardegg was appointed vice-consul in 1871 and served through 1910.

   2010, Lester I. Vogel, To See A Promised Land, →ISBN

plural Vice-Consuls

1. alternativeAlternative form of vice-consul.

   In 1852 he was appointed Vice-Consul at Mytilene with a roving commission to search for ancient remains in the neighbouring lands.

   2011, John Edwin Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, →ISBN