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attaché

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See also: attache and Attaché

English

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French attaché (literally attached).

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Noun

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attaché (plural attachés)

  1. A diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role.
    Little did anyone suspect that the military attaché was one of the world's craftiest spies.
    • 1915, Commerce Reports, volume 2, number 115, page 784:
      One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to an automotor for an interurban railway.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French attaché.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɑ.tɑˈʃeː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: at‧ta‧che
  • Rhymes: -eː

Noun

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attaché m (plural attachés, diminutive attacheetje n, feminine attachee)

  1. attaché

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Descendants

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  • Indonesian: atase

French

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Adjective

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attaché (feminine attachée, masculine plural attachés, feminine plural attachées)

  1. attached, attached to, bound, committed, connected, devoted, fastened, fixed, joined-up, secured, strapped, tethered, tie-on, tied, wired
    Synonyms: fixé (fixed), lié (linked)

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Noun

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attaché m (plural attachés, feminine attachée)

  1. attaché, attache (employment of civil servant in several administrations)
    Un attaché à la Bibliothèque nationale.An attaché to the National Library.
    Un attaché au cabinet d’un ministre.An attaché to the office of a minister.
    • 1937 March, Georges Simenon, chapter II, in Le Blanc à lunettes [The Bespectacled White Man], Paris: Éditions Gallimard:
      Mon mari est attaché militaire à l’ambassade anglaise d’Ankara.
      My husband is military attaché to the British Embassy in Ankara.

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Participle

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attaché (feminine attachée, masculine plural attachés, feminine plural attachées)

  1. past participle of attacher

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Further reading

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French attaché.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /a.taˈʂɛ/
  • Audio 1:(file)
  • Audio 2:(file)
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  • Syllabification: a‧tta‧ché

Noun

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attaché m pers (indeclinable)

  1. (diplomacy, politics) attaché (diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role)
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Further reading

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  • attaché in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • attaché in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • attaché in PWN's encyclopedia

Swedish

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Etymology

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From French attaché.

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attaché c

  1. attaché

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