foreign office

1. 1.

   the government department in charge of foreign relations

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Questions about foreign office

What does foreign office mean?

foreign office means "the government department in charge of foreign relations".

Is foreign office a common word?

foreign office is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.