Chargé d'affaires

A chargé d'affaires (French pronunciation: ​[ʃaʁʒe dafɛʁ]), plural chargés d'affaires, often shortened to chargé (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to charge-D, is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador. The term is French for "charged with [in charge of] business", the affaires or business being the ordinary duties of an ambassador. Chargé is masculine in gender; a female is a chargée d'affaires.

Chargé d'affaires

A chargé d'affaires (French pronunciation: ​[ʃaʁʒe dafɛʁ]), plural chargés d'affaires, often shortened to chargé (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to charge-D, is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador. The term is French for "charged with [in charge of] business", the affaires or business being the ordinary duties of an ambassador. Chargé is masculine in gender; a female is a chargée d'affaires.