foreign service

1. 1.

   the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world

   Broaderagency

   Part ofDepartment of State

Questions about foreign service

What does foreign service mean?

foreign service means "the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world".

Is foreign service a common word?

foreign service 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.