Definition of "foreign affairs" [foreign affairs]

• Affairs concerning international relations and national interests in foreign countries. (noun-plural)

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• "Nonetheless, Johnson and Rostow maintained the three core elements of the Kennedy-Bundy innovations: the adviser handling the presidents day-to-day foreign affairs business; the staff recruited to serve the current administration; and the communications and information system centered in the Situation Room."
• "Of all the senior foreign affairs advisers in the government, he was closestboth personally and ideologicallyto President Carter."
• "At around one-thirty I go to the House of Friendship café, an exclusive place with waitresses and a printed menu, which is open for lunch for employees and members of the select public involved in foreign affairs and which stays open on those nights when there is an art or culture festival in the ballroom on the second floor."