Associations to the word «Diplomacy»

Wiktionary

DIPLOMACY, 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 polities with varying status, such as those of monarchs and their princely vassals
DIPLOMACY, noun. Tact and subtle skill in dealing with people so as to avoid or settle hostility.

Dictionary definition

DIPLOMACY, noun. Negotiation between nations.
DIPLOMACY, noun. Subtly skillful handling of a situation.
DIPLOMACY, noun. Wisdom in the management of public affairs.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne