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Definition of Diplomacy

1. Noun. Negotiation between nations.

2. Noun. Subtly skillful handling of a situation.

3. Noun. Wisdom in the management of public affairs.

Definition of Diplomacy

1. n. The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.

Definition of Diplomacy

1. Noun. The art and practice of conducting international relations by negotiating alliances, treaties, agreements etc., bilaterally or multilaterally, between states and sometimes international organisms, or even between policies with varying status, such as those of monarchs and their princely vassals ¹

2. Noun. Tact and subtle skill in dealing with people so as to avoid or settle hostility. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Diplomacy

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Medical Definition of Diplomacy

1. 1. The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed. 2. Dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact. 3. The body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body. Origin: F. Diplomatie. This word, like supremacy, retains the accent of its original. See Diploma. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diplomacy

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Literary usage of Diplomacy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Preventing Deadly Conflict edited by David A. Hamburg, Cyrus R. Vance (1998)
"PREVENTIVE diplomacy Simply knowing about a developing crisis is not enough. As a minimum step to arrest potential violence and to address humanitarian ..."

2. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1916)
"The diplomacy of the War of 1914- The Beginnings of the war. By Ellery C. Stowell, Assistant Professor of International Law, Columbia University. ..."

3. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History by John Lothrop Motley (1856)
"... diplomacy AND SUBMARINE LAURELS. Latter days of the Blood Council—Informal and insincere negotiations for peace —Characteristics of the negotiators and ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"The helpless fall of Rattazzi, known to be devoted to France, strikes Frenchmen as a proof that Napoleonic diplomacy, with all its material power, ..."

5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"Henceforth it became the object of French diplomacy to detach the British Government from the Spanish Liberals ; and the task became easy since Peel's ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... Streit mit der Kurie (1866). only by skilful diplomacy, and that it was constantly imperilled by their conflicting interests. F. KAMPERS. ..."

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