overseas posting
Work abroad placement
An overseas posting is a work assignment in a foreign country, typically for military personnel, diplomats, or corporate employees.
The term implies temporary relocation rather than permanent emigration: Her overseas posting to the embassy in Tokyo lasted three years.
Postings suggest the employer sends you somewhere, distinguishing them from jobs you seek independently.
- diplomaticTactful and sensitive
- foreign serviceOverseas government representation
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
- embassyOfficial diplomatic residence abroad
foreign · deployment · relocation · consulate · diplomatic corps · abroad · transfer · station · mission · visa · passport · attaché · hardship · tour · secondment · rotation · distant · faraway
- expatexpat, expat community, expat bubble, relocation, foreign assignment
- foreign workwork permit, work visa, foreign assignment, migrant worker, employment visa
- stationingdeployment, assignment, billeting, quartering, garrison
- work assignmentsassignment, transfer, placement, deployment, relocation
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, officers, navy
- job transferrelocation, promotion, reassignment, lateral move, internal transfer