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foreign service
noun
a division of the U.S. Department of State or of a foreign office that maintains diplomatic and consular posts and personnel in other countries.
foreign service
noun
the diplomatic and usually consular personnel of a foreign affairs ministry or foreign office collectively who represent their country abroad, deal with foreign diplomats at home, etc
Foreign Service
The professional arm of the executive branch that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world. Ambassadors, though officially members of the Foreign Service, are sometimes friends of the president of the United States appointed in gratitude for support given during elections.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of foreign service1
Example Sentences
According to Daniel Byman, from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, Israel's move represents a new willingness to go against American preferences in the region.
While the actual implementation of those cuts remains uncertain, the State Department is already dismissing 20% of its domestic workforce, or about 3,400 employees, including a significant number of Foreign Service officers, special envoys, and cyber-security specialists.
And amid a federal hiring freeze, tests for the Foreign Service — men and women who staff U.S. embassies and consulates around the world, often for their entire professional lives — were put on hold.
And in the interest of eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse," the plan anticipates laying off career diplomats and civil service employees and replacing the foreign service exam for new criteria that includes “alignment with the president’s foreign policy vision.”
The goal of those fellowships has been to help students from underrepresented groups get a chance at entering the Foreign Service soon after graduation.
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