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The phrase "a foreign service" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a government agency or department that deals with international relations, diplomacy, or consular affairs.
Example: "She has dedicated her career to a foreign service, representing her country in various diplomatic missions around the world."
Alternatives: "an international service" or "a diplomatic service".
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Her mother is a foreign service officer.
Singapore, with a population of 5m, has a foreign service about the same size as India's.
Language training is provided at a foreign service institute, at local universities, or abroad.
In 1978 he joined the U.S. State Department as a foreign service officer.
Donna Woolf said she was smitten by her father's career as a foreign service officer.
They share little beyond the military forces and a foreign service.
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"Things were blue skies" when Tillerson was nominated, Erin Clancy, a foreign-service officer, recalled.
Ms. Bautista's official role was as a foreign-service officer assigned to the Philippine Mission to the United Nations.
He spent several years in Japan as a foreign-service officer and studied Japanese literature at Tokyo University.
A Foreign-Service employee of one of the oil companies in the Near East was transacting some business with an Arab chieftain.
Davies, a Foreign Service Officer serving in the China Burma India Theater (CBI), called for the establishment of an observers' mission in Chinese Communist territory.
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