chancellerynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtʃɑːn.səl.ər.i/us/ˈtʃæn.səl.ɚ.i/also chancerya building or room where a chancellor works or lives, or the people who work in a chancellor's offices
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Public buildings
- art gallery
- basilica
- bath
- bathhouse
- centre
- city hall
- gallery
- guildhall
- hall
- Hall of Fame
- leisure centre
- office building
- pavilion
- public library
- reference library
- register office
- registry
- teardown
- telephone exchange
- town hall
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Government ministers & civil servants
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- Far away, in the chancelleries of Europe, and, not so far away, in the big government buildings in the West End of London, the statesmen were even then making their last effort to avert war.
- In the Allied chancelleries anxious groups were gathered.
- In the Allied chancelleries there was fear of a treacherous separate peace between Russia and Germany.
- Johan is then busy with his despatches and shut up in the chancellery.