0 the government department that employs people to represent their country in other parts of the world --
The department of state conducts the foreign affairs of the government chiefly through the diplomatic service and the consular service.
My grandfather met her when he was in the diplomatic service.
From his early boyhood he aspired to enter the diplomatic service.
Father had two or three acquaintances in the diplomatic service at Washington.
But it was after he went into the diplomatic service that the real trouble began.
