Attache

Definition: Attache

Attache

Noun

1. A specialist assigned to the staff of a diplomatic mission.

2. A shallow and rectangular briefcase.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "attache" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonym: Attache

Consignee

Diplomatist, diplomat(e), corps diplomatique, embassy; ambassador, embassador; representative, resident, consul, legate, nuncio, internuncio, charge d'affaires, attache.

Servant

Noun: subject, liegeman; servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache; official.

Crosswords: Attache

French (attaches, brace, clip, fastener, tab, tether, tie), German (attache), Spanish (attache case), Swedish (attache).

Books

• Attache Adventures Abroad: The Postwar Decade in Turkey, Greece, Palestine & Equatorial Africa (reference)

• Cold War, Hot Seat: A Western Defence Attache in the Soviet Union (reference)

• From This Day Forward: Memoirs of an Attache Wife (reference)

• Inside the Nazi Ring: Naval Attache in Germany (reference)

• With the Russian Army, 1914-1917: Being Chiefly Extracts from the Diary of a Military Attache (2 Vols in 1) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Foreign Agricultural Service Attache Commodity Reports (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

High Tech

• HAKUBA USA INC ACB-10 Pro Series Attache Camera Bag ( BLACK ) (reference)

• Antec PID 100 PCMCIA Attache Portable Color Scanner (reference)

• Attache Portable Sf Colorscanner USB 98/wme/w2k/wxp (reference)

• LEATHER ATTACHE CASE (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Soehnle 4-Pound Attache Scale (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Captain John W. Murphy, ship's Commanding Officer, talks with King Ibn Saud, of Saudi Arabia, during a Royal visit on board, probably near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, circa 1947. Interpreter Mohamed Effendi is between them. Some of the King's bodyguards are also present. At right are Ralph B. Curren (Civil Air Attache to the U.S. Embassy at Cairo, Egypt) and Waldo Bailey (U.S. Consul at Dhahran). Credit: NAVY.

King Ibn Saud, of Saudi Arabia, boards the ship for a visit, probably near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, circa 1947. He is preceded by some of his bodyguards and followed by Mohamed Effendi (interpreter), Waldo Bailey (U.S. Consul at Dhahran), Colonel William McNown (Military Attache to the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt), Captain John C. Woelfel (U.S. Naval Technical Officer at the Cairo Embassy), and Captain Dewitt C.E. Hamberger (Naval Attache to the Cairo Embassy). Some of Cimarron's officers are saluting in the foreground. Credit: NAVY.

Off Nagasaki, Japan, at about the time of her commissioning (which took place on 20 September 1927). Taken from a foreign warship, this photograph was provided to the U.S. Naval Attache in Tokyo soon afterwards. It was subsequently forwarded to the Office of Naval Intelligence. Credit: NAVY.

In harbor, circa August 1940, prior to installation of the rangefinders atop her tower and conning tower. This fine-pattern halftone was printed in a Spanish publication, circa 1941. It was provided by the U.S. Naval Attache, Madrid, whose stamp appears at left. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed at the Navy Department, Washington, DC, circa 1925-28, while Capt. Yamamoto was serving as Japanese Naval Attache to the U.S. Credit: NAVY.

Japanese Vice Admiral Osami Nagano lays a wreath at the tomb, circa 1927. At the right end of the Japanese delegation is the Naval Attache to the United States, Captain Isoroku Yamamoto. The U.S. Navy officer standing hatless just behind them is Lieutenant Commander Paulus P. Powell, Aide to VAdm. Nagano during this visit. Credit: NAVY.

Ceremonies on board, at Toulon, France, 11 September 1951, commemorating her entry into service after she was transferred to the French Navy by the U.S. Navy. Among those present: Vice Admiral Nomy (at microphone), Chief of French Naval General Staff; In Whites, behind VAdm. Nomy (right to left): Captain Rieu; Vice Admiral Pothnau, Commander, French Fleet; Vice Admiral Jozan, Commander, Carriers; and Vice Admiral Sala, Prefet Maritime, Toulon. Officers in Blues are: Captain H.H. Smith-Hutton, USN, Naval Attache; Rear Admiral Peries, French Navy, Deputy Chief of Staff for Air; Captain Kaufmann, USN; Commander Sannoner and two aides. Credit: NAVY.

Wrecked car of Capt. J. Rigal, French naval attache, French Embassy. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Military Attache of the Japanese Embassy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

When evaluating sales opportunities within the Czech Republic, foreign firms must take care to obtain updated information from the American Embassy Prague's Commercial Service, Defense Attache Office or Office of Defense Cooperation. (references)

Economic History

India

The Defense Cooperation Attache will assist by providing contact details of offices that are the main purchasers of foreign defense goods for India and offer advice on the most effective, successful strategies for defense related sales. (references)

Niger

A small foreign military assistance program was initiated in 1983 and a U.S. Defense Attache office opened in June 1985. After being converted to a Security Assistance Office in 1987, it was subsequently closed in 1996. A U.S. Defense Attache office reopened in July 2000. (references)

Human Rights

Rwanda

In February in Kigali, a soldier in uniform killed RPA officer Alphonse Mbayire, a former military attache assigned to the Rwandan Embassy in Nairobi. (references)

Travel

Switzerland

A typical scam used against businessmen is for a thief to grab an attache case in a hotel or airport while an accomplice distracts the victim. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "attache": air attache ♦ attache case ♦ commercial attache ♦ cultural attache ♦ military attache ♦ naval attache ♦ press attache. Additional references.

Albanian

atashe. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملحق في السفارة, ‏ملحق ثقافي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

аташе на посолство, аташе. (various references)

Chinese 

随员 (suite), 參贊 (diplomatic officer). (various references)

Czech

atašé. (various references)

Farsi 

وابسته (Adjective, Affiliate, Akin, Attendant, Correlate, Dependent, Germane, Relative, Relevant, Subordinate). (various references)

French

attaché (attached). (various references)

German

attache. (various references)

Greek 

ακόλουθοσ πρεσβείασ. (various references)

Hungarian

attasé (attaché). (various references)

Indonesian

atase, anggota kedutaan. (various references)

Italian

addetto ad un'ambasciata, addetto (assigned, attached, employee). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

公使館�"� (legation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"うしか�"い�" (legation). (various references)

Korean 

무관. (various references)

Manx

myn-chaghter. (various references)

Pig Latin

attacheay

Portuguese

adido, diplomata (diplomat, diplomatist, politic, tactful). (various references)

Romanian

ataşat (attached, bound). (various references)

Russian 

атташе (attaché, attachee). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ataše. (various references)

Spanish

agregado (aggregate, aggregated, aggregation, aggregative, attached, incorporated). (various references)

Swedish

attache. (various references)

Thai

นักการทูต (diplomat, emissary). (various references)

Turkish

ataşe. (various references)

Ukrainian

аташе. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "attache": attached, attacher, attachers, attaches. (additional references)

Words containing "attache": nonattached, reattached, reattaches, unattached. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: attach, chaeta.

-2 letters: aceta, cheat, tacet, tache, teach, tecta, theca, theta.

-3 letters: ache, acta, cate, chat, each, eath, etch, haet, hate, heat, tace, tach, tact, tate, teat, teth, thae, that.

-4 letters: aah, ace, act, aha, ate, att, cat, eat, eta, eth, hae, hat, het, tae, tat, tea, tet, the.

-5 letters: aa, ae, ah, at, eh.

+1 letter: attached, attacher, attaches, reattach.

+2 letters: apathetic, attachers, clathrate, ecthymata, tracheate.

+3 letters: anchovetta, anthracite, attachable, attachment, chapatties, clathrates, deathwatch, mathematic, pathetical, reattached, reattaches, theatrical, tracheated, unattached.

+4 letters: aesthetical, anaesthetic, anchovettas, anthracites, anticathode, atheistical, attachments, catastrophe, catholicate, chaetognath, gnatcatcher, intrathecal, mathematics, metaethical, nonattached, reattaching, tetradrachm, theatricals, thiocyanate, weathercast.

+5 letters: aesthetician, anaesthetics, anticathodes, antipathetic, antithetical, apothegmatic, arithmetical, atheoretical, athletically, authenticate, bathetically, catachrestic, cataphoretic, catastrophes, catechetical, catholicates, chaetognaths, deathwatches, exanthematic, extrahepatic, gnatcatchers, mathematical, matriarchate, metathetical, metathoraces, metathoracic, methacrylate, pathetically, patriarchate, reattachment, tetradrachms, theatrically, thematically, theocratical, thiocyanates, trochanteral, weathercasts.