attaché

noun

Definition of attachénext
1
as in briefcase

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2
as in consul

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for attaché
  1. briefcase
  2. consul
  3. valise
  4. diplomat
  5. wallet
  6. foreign minister
  7. portmanteau
  8. procurator
Noun
  • Wayne picks Gregory up at a motel, in Mobile, Alabama, and hands him a briefcase containing, among other things, a gun.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Everyone has the late-night parking garage and the briefcase full of cash in their pocket.
    — Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of briefcase
Noun
  • Patrolling in pairs and marked by their black patent leather tricorn hats, the Guardia Civil sometimes forced refugees back into France but more often threw them into spartan jails until the British or the American consul sent for them.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Barclay, a family law attorney by trade and the consul of Jamaica in Chicago, cast himself as a supporter of development near public transit, pointing out vacant lots that abutted the train’s route.
    — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of consul
Noun
  • But in Vienna, Pollak kept a mistress, and Milena had to take a job porting valises at the train station just to make ends meet.
    — Christine Estima September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • That a kindly bellhop from The Balmoral, our hotel adjacent to the station, loaded our valises off a trolley cart did little to rein in these trappings.
    — Ross Kenneth Urken, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 May 2024
Definition of valise
Noun
  • The European Union’s top diplomat said Russia’s army is struggling to make progress on the front line and wants to scare off Ukraine’s Western backers with its air campaign.
    — Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The chaos persisted for hours late into Saturday as the presidential guard and other loyalist forces secured the air base and the presidency, analysts and diplomats said.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of diplomat
Noun
  • Gado via Getty Images AI agents are starting to hold wallets and pay for things, and finance has no standard way to tell one agent from another.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • When the tip bucket was passed around, patrons reached for their wallets, not avoided eye contact.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of wallet
Noun
  • Nepal’s foreign minister called for a global response to climate change, saying Nepal was bearing a disproportionate share of its impact.
    — Victoria Milko, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Nepal’s foreign minister told a press conference today that the country remained on high alert for fresh flooding risks.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of foreign minister
Noun
  • The name Phia is a portmanteau of the founders’ names Phoebe and Sophia.
    — Sarah Glodek, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
  • In 1948, Winthrop and Vivian Smith purchased it and renamed it Winvian in a playful portmanteau of their respective first names.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of portmanteau
Noun
  • Andrei Vyshinsky, procurator general in the 1930s, had overseen Stalin’s horrendous purges of millions of ordinary citizens – plus most of the members of the Communist Party Central Committee and top Soviet generals.
    — Peter Bridges, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The procurator of Roman Britain, Catus Decianus, ordered an extra two hundred men to Camulodunum and figured the problem was solved.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 14 May 2021
Definition of procurator
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“Attaché.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attach%C3%A9. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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