All 5 Uses

consulate
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Lost Horizon
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I've worked with him at the Consulate.†
Chpt 1 *

consulate = a diplomat appointed by a government to live in a foreign country and help its citizens visiting that country; or the offices of that person and assistants
I can't forget that two days ago we were in the consulate at Baskul.†
Chpt 3
To have taken on himself the leadership of some scores of mixed civilians, including women and children, to have sheltered them all in a small consulate during a hot-blooded revolution led by anti-foreign agitators, and to have bullied and cajoled the revolutionaries into permitting a wholesale evacuation by air, it was not, he felt, a bad achievement.†
Chpt 4
It fitted Baskul and Delhi and London, war-making and empire-building, consulates and trade concessions and dinner parties at Government House; there was a reek of dissolution over all that recollected world, and Barnard's cropper had only, perhaps, been better dramatized than his own.†
Chpt 6
Conway, who had often had similar feelings when calling on new arrivals at foreign consulates, thought it a very intelligible attitude.†
Chpt 9

Definitions:

(1) (consulate)
the offices where a consul works; or a consul (a diplomat appointed by a government to live in a foreign country, help its citizens visiting that country, and protect its commercial interests there)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Consulate general references a building that serves a consul general (a high ranking consul).