diplomacy
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3.7
- noun
- /dɪˈploʊməsi/
- Formal
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diplomacia
- That security will come through diplomacy, not escalation.
- international diplomacy
- economic diplomacy
- public diplomacy
That leads to five years of diplomacy going back and forth.
- That leads to five years of diplomacy going back and forth.
- And I mean, personally, I think diplomacy needs to work without intervention.
- The, the, the Chinese do black bag diplomacy really well, meaning they pay cash.
- Preventive diplomacy says you have to take out that threat.
- Operation Desert Shield became Operation Desert Storm after all diplomacy that we tried to do failed.
- I did what he said, but I had to learn diplomacy because I had a big mouth.
- It's licensed and they use a bit of diplomacy.
- Now is the time to have really an incredibly tough diplomatic effort, a diplomacy surge.
- It also doesn't help that we have persisted in this policy of no diplomacy towards the Ukraine war.
- And, you know, I think just generally hackers are not very good at diplomacy.
- Andrew, the world is a complicated place from an international diplomacy standpoint, currently active wars.
- I wish we would use our wealth and our resources and our means to lead with diplomacy.
- No, it's, and I think TK is a bit of a he's a Mozart with respect to diplomacy.
Examples
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The ambassador used diplomacy to resolve the conflict peacefully between the two nations.
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I mean, I was trained for diplomacy, for dialogue.
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Since those early days, the future of cultural diplomacy has been in good hands.
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So winning in diplomacy, what does that really look like?
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That leads to five years of diplomacy going back and forth.
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At the same time, our strategy for the future is development, defence and diplomacy, all three working together.
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But taking the lead in financial diplomacy is no easy task.
Academic text (1999) -
There are, indeed, three tools in foreign policy: diplomacy, sanctions, and war.
Academic text (1999) -
The document discusses the need to use "quiet diplomacy" to influence friendly governments.
Academic text (1990) -
Clinton's approach to North Korea was one of diplomacy and conciliation.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
859
3.5
A discussion to reach an agreement, often in business or politics
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3.9
Talks between representatives of different countries to solve problems and reach agreements
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4.1
The activity of negotiating and arranging agreements in business or politics
Compounds
- Literature
2
6.8
Talks where a neutral person travels between two sides to help them reach an agreement
- Literature
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8.1
Using or threatening military force to make another country obey, often by sending ships
How Tactful
Surface Forms
Morphology
diplomacy = diplomatic (semi-transparent) = diploma + acy
The modern meaning is best related to the adjective 'diplomatic'/'diplomat', but the form comes through non‑productive foreign morphology (‑acy), so the relation is not fully obvious to learners.
Etymology
Diplomacy comes from the word diploma, which originally meant a 'folded paper' or certificate carried by an official. Those folded papers showed a person's authority to speak for their country, so diplomacy came to mean the careful art of handling relations and negotiations between people or countries.