High Commission

noun [C] GOVERNMENT

Definition

› a building in a Commonwealth country in which the people who officially represent another Commonweath country work: the Australian High Commission

(Definition of High Commission noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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