Ad interim (ad int) is Latin for "temporarily" or "in the meantime". Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It also refers to a diplomatic officer who acts in place of an ambassador, as in the term "chargé d'affaires ad interim". An ambassador is the highest ranking Diplomat who represents their country In diplomacy chargé d’affaires ( French for “charged with (in charge of matters” is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic
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| “ | No; but she has become queen of Paris, ad interim, and since she could not venture at once to establish herself in the Palais Royal or the Tuileries, she is installed at the Hotel de Ville, where she is on the point of giving an heir or an heiress to that dear duke. The Palais des Tuileries was a royal Palace in Paris. It stood on the right bank of the River Seine until 1871, when it was destroyed
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| “ | Ad interim, if I may be pardoned that expression, I shall give you this betel-box, which is highly valuable article and cost me two rupees only four years ago. Twenty Years After ( Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas père.
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