Envoy
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- noun
- /ˈɛnvɔɪ/
- Specialized
- "Jacques, let the Prime Minister know that Monsieur Roland Jolivet will be the new Special Presidential Envoy for Mediation of the Volga Crisis." "Who knows?" the President whispered to me.
- a special envoy
Examples
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Patrick Madrid is the founder and publisher of the award-winning Envoy Magazine, a Catholic journal of apologetics and evangelization.
Blog text (5) -
On this occasion, he traveled as the Envoy for Receiving the Imperial Memorial (K. Chumunsa).
Academic text (2016) -
For full details, I am turning the briefing over to our special Federation Envoy.
Fiction book (1991) -
I had a buddy whose official title (on his business cards) was "Community Envoy."
Blog text (13) -
The software team integrated the envoy to manage service-to-service communication in the cloud application.
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As part of the project's architecture, the envoy was responsible for securing data transmission between microservices.
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Developers utilized the envoy to monitor and route network traffic efficiently within the containerized services.
Compounds
- Archaic
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A government official sent on a special diplomatic mission with lower rank than an ambassador
Surface Forms
Etymology
Envoy comes from the old French verb envoyer, which means 'to send', and it originally meant a 'messenger' sent on a mission. So the software called Envoy is easy to remember: it works like a program 'messenger' that directs and watches network traffic between services.