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diplomacy
/dɪˈploʊməsi/
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What does diplomacy mean?
noun
- The art and practice of conducting international relations by negotiating alliances, treaties, agreements etc., bilaterally or multilaterally, between states and sometimes international organizations, or even between polities with varying status, such as those of monarchs and their princely vassals.
- Tact and subtle skill in dealing with people so as to avoid or settle hostility.
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For a man caught, as it were, between his skipper and the great West Wind silence is the safest sort of diplomacy.
With his son, however, he employed the diplomacy he reserved for important occasions and, adopting a quiet tone, discussed the whole matter.
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And there was the mother wavering, half willing-by adroit and flawless diplomacy to be won over, now, or perhaps never at all.
This agreement, which was to remain in force for seventeen years, was a master-stroke of diplomacy on the part of the Bell Company.
At the same time he is fully alive to the necessity of gaining English patronage, and sets about securing this with tactful diplomacy.