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Answer for the clue "Diplomatic mission ", 7 letters:
embassy

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embassy \Em"bas*sy\, n.; pl. Embassies . [OF. ambass['e]e, embasc['e]e, LL. ambasciata, fr. ambasciare for ambactiare to go on a mission, fr. L. ambactus vassal, dependent, of Celtic or German origin; cf. W. amaeth husbandman, Goth. andbahts servant, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "position of an ambassador," from Middle French embassee "mission, charge, office of ambassador," Old French ambassee , from Italian ambasciata , from Old Provençal ambaisada "office of ambassador," from Gaulish *ambactos "dependant, vassal," literally ...

Usage examples of embassy.

Land Rovers screaming around the desert, men in black kit abseiling down embassy walls, or free fallers with all the kit on, leaping into the night.

I had likewise occasion to become acquainted at the Venetian Embassy with a lady from Venice, the widow of an English baronet named Wynne.

Bundesgrenzschutz a force of West German riot police who guard airports, embassies and the border and an elderly Englishman in a curious nautical uniform worn by the British Frontier Service, which acts as guides for ail British army patrols on land, air and river.

But, in this respect, the Hallichek Ambassadress and her Embassy staff were sorely hampered.

This Turkish embassy, attested only by Crantzius, is related with some doubt by the annalist Spondanus, A.

Lars Aquavit take my bag and lead me out to the embassy car at the curb.

The first and most obvious was the question of why Asad Khalil had turned himself in to the CIA liaison guy at the Paris Embassy.

Nevertheless, he dared to tell me that he was astonished at my hardihood in presenting myself at the embassy.

At that point, as Miles had hoped and foreseen, proceedings broke down in a morass of untested interplanetary legal hypotheses that threatened to engulf the Barrayaran Embassy and the Betan State Department on ever-ascending levels of personnel.

The outraged Betan was directed to take his case to the Barrayaran Embassy in person.

Opposite him was Commander Ralph Busch, the CIA representative with a short fuse, who after five years attached to the Embassy in Grosvenor Square considered himself more British than the British, and even imitated the Foreign Office style of dress to prove it.

I have worked with Commander Busch several times over the past five years and I am delighted that the American Embassy has chosen him to represent them.

The effendi told me that he had found the partner I wanted, and I answered that the musician could be had easily, if he would send a note to the Venetian Embassy, which was done at once.

Merrick exposed an opposition agent actually installed in the cypher room of the British Embassy it was going to make a nasty bang at a time when the East-West delegates were sending each other roses.

Among the public buildings destroyed or seriously damaged in this raid were the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, the former British Embassy, the administrative offices of the Waffen S.