- [countable, usually singular]
the place where a chancellor has his or her office 大臣（或大法官等）的官署 - [singular + singular or plural verb]
the staff in the department of a chancellor 大臣（或大法官等）官署的全体工作人员
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French chancellerie, from chancelier ‘secretary’, from late Latin cancellarius ‘porter, secretary’ (originally a court official stationed at the grating separating public from judges), from cancelli ‘crossbars’.