diplomacy

[di·plo·ma·cy]

Diplomacy is the art of helping groups to get along and even work together. If you have a gift for diplomacy, you can get bickering siblings to cooperate.

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

Noun
subtly skillful handling of a situation

Noun
wisdom in the management of public affairs

Noun
negotiation between nations


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

n.
Dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact.

n.
The body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body.


Diplomacy

Di*plo"ma*cy , n. [F. diplomatie. This word, like supremacy, retains the accent of its original. See Diploma.] 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. [R.] Burke.

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

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Usage Examples

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

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Other Usage Examples

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

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