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UK
/dˈɪpləmˌæt/
]
[ US /ˈdɪpɫəˌmæt/ ]
[ US /ˈdɪpɫəˌmæt/ ]
NOUN
- an official engaged in international negotiations
- a person who deals tactfully with others
How To Use diplomat In A Sentence
- The officials and diplomats spoke anonymously because of the delicacy of the negotiations on what tack to take on Iran.
- To my mind, Tom Hank's Forrest Gump is a Walter Mitty , for he sometimes was a Vietnamese War hero and later a table tennis diplomat between America and China.
- Diplomatic negotiations often aim at a zero-sum game.
- The statement affirmed the two countries' willingness to maintain their diplomatic, economic and military ties.
- Here retired US diplomat Ellsworth Bunker drew up a plan to transfer the administrative authority for West Papua from the Netherlands to a neutral administrator, and thence to Indonesia.
- The Kremlin is still insisting on a diplomatic solution to the crisis.
- German forces remilitarized the territory in 1936, as part of a diplomatic test of will, three years before the outbreak of the Second World War.
- This performance was supposed to be a highlight of the events celebrating 40 years of diplomatic relationships between China and France.
- Japan should recognize it needs to recalibrate its diplomatic strategy to meet changing realities in the region.
- He started his official career as a diplomat.