1. The office or jurisdiction of a consul (the senator advised the businessman to notify the U.S. consulate in Kuwait before visiting the country). [Cases: Ambassadors and Consuls
5. C.J.S. Ambassadors and Consuls §§ 26–30.]
2. The location of a consul’s office or residence (the family was staying on the second floor, just above the Turkish consulate).
foreign consulate. The consulate of a foreign country in the receiving state.
3. Government by consuls (after the French Revolution, the Directory was overthrown and the Consulate was created). • This sense of consulate is based on the original Roman meaning (“chief magistrate”) — not on the modern sense of an overseas representative of a country.
