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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
diplomat
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
foreign
▪ We taxied towards the buildings and a little party of figures came to meet us as if they were welcoming a foreign diplomat.
▪ Only two foreign diplomats have been involved in violent deaths in the United States.
▪ An early return to civilian rule is endangered, according to politicians and foreign diplomats.
▪ This claim was greeted with scepticism by both campaigners and foreign diplomats.
senior
▪ He smoked and drank heavily, and his language was rich in expletives even when mixing with senior diplomats and politicians.
▪ The perfect ambassador's wife, according to one of the senior diplomats who had been delighted to promote her husband.
soviet
▪ Cheltenham was outside the radius around London within which Soviet diplomats and journalists could roam free.
▪ These recollections, centred around one Soviet diplomat, track back and forth over the years.
▪ Among those present was the journalist who, with two Soviet diplomats, had recently been expelled from London.
western
▪ But it has given rise to two main worries among western diplomats in Bonn.
▪ Neurological, according to a Western diplomat.
▪ Despite the rebel gains, Western diplomats have been upbeat in recent days about the prospects for peace.
▪ To make matters worse, in the opinion of some Western diplomats, these sources could actually shrink.
▪ We all knew what was happening-surely Western diplomats could not be blind to what was going on?
▪ A Western diplomat speculated that Rodionov may be preparing to quit.
■ NOUN
career
▪ Hurd, a former career diplomat and Foreign Office Minister of State, was the obvious choice as his successor.
■ VERB
accord
▪ Neurological, according to a Western diplomat.
say
▪ Marginalized people are simply creating their own society, says the retired diplomat.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ambassador Thompson is an experienced diplomat who has served in France, South America, and the Middle East.
▪ As a natural diplomat, Baxter found it easy to get the two sides to agree.
▪ British and Argentinian diplomats met to discuss peace.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A shoplifting diplomat caught on videotape was prosecuted by his own government.
▪ Even so, a single diplomat may be called upon to serve at different times in a variety of capacities.
▪ Jefferson sent his request by way of diplomats he knew who knew her, and she took months to respond.
▪ So far as systematic training of diplomats was concerned, therefore, the eighteenth century saw projects and suggestions, but little lasting achievement.
▪ The recently arrived cultural attache, Ian Sloane, was among the diplomats to be sent home.
▪ These diplomats have never seen a famine.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diplomat

Diplomat \Dip"lo*mat\, Diplomate \Dip"lo*mate\, n. [F. diplomate.] A diplomatist.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
diplomat

1813, from French diplomate, a back-formation from diplomatique (see diplomatic) on model of aristocrate from aristocratique.

Wiktionary
diplomat

n. 1 A person who is accredited, such as an ambassador, to officially represent a government in its relations with other governments or international organisations 2 (context figuratively English) Someone who uses skill and tact in dealing with other people

WordNet
diplomat

  1. n. an official engaged in international negotiations [syn: diplomatist]

  2. a person who deals tactfully with others

Wikipedia
Diplomat (solitaire)

Diplomat is a solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards shuffled together. Its layout is similar to that of Beleaguered Castle.

Diplomat (disambiguation)

A diplomat is someone who represents a government in its relations with other governments. It may also refer to: __NOTOC__ Diplomat, the Diplomat or the Diplomats may refer to:

Diplomat (card game)

Diplomat is a simple yet very difficult card game that requires large amounts of memorization, recall, and logical thinking. Games usually last anywhere from 15 to 90 minutes, depending on the number and skill of players. Diplomat requires enough strategy that people who have played before are far more likely to do well than players who have not.

Diplomat

A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or international organisations. The main functions of diplomats are: representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state; initiation and facilitation of strategic agreements; treaties and conventions; promotion of information; trade and commerce; technology; and friendly relations. Seasoned diplomats of international repute are used in international organisations (e.g. United Nations) as well as multinational companies for their experience in management and negotiating skills. Diplomats are members of foreign services and diplomatic corps of various nations of the world.

Diplomats are the oldest form of any of the foreign policy institutions of the state, predating by centuries foreign ministers and ministerial offices. They usually have diplomatic immunity.

Diplomat (train)

The Diplomat was a named passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) during the 1920s–1950s connecting New York City, and St. Louis, Missouri, via Washington, D.C. Other B&O trains on the route during that period were the premier National Limited and the workhorse Metropolitan Special. The train was inaugurated in August 1930 after several changes to trains along the St. Louis Route. After World War II, the Diplomat operated as Train No. 3 westbound, and No. 4 eastbound. It was timed to provide connections to several western railroads that terminated in St. Louis, including the Frisco, the Santa Fe, Cotton Belt and Missouri Pacific, among others.

B&O's New York terminal was actually in Jersey City, New Jersey, using the New Jersey Central's Jersey City Terminal. Passengers were then transferred to buses that met the train right on the platform. These buses were then ferried across the Hudson River to Manhattan, where they proceeded to various "stations" including the Vanderbilt Hotel, Wanamaker's, Columbus Circle, and Rockefeller Center, as well as Brooklyn.

Usage examples of "diplomat".

Sir Nevile Henderson, the British ambassador, who had been sent to Berlin by Prime Minister Chamberlain to apply his skills as a professional diplomat to the appeasement of Hitler and who applied them to the utmost, called repeatedly at the German Foreign Office to inquire about German troop movements and to advise caution.

So easily were the British and French statesmen and diplomats, bent on appeasement at any cost, deceived!

The pen-pusher was self-indulgent and bombastic, Gorgidas thought, but he was a diplomat, too.

Shigemitsu, the former diplomat, wrote a celebratory poem to the effect that, because his lord was a god, he was untouchable by the enemy.

The diplomats go home, and they can pack up their codes with their dolls and take them home.

Busy though he was at the telephone directing the coup in Vienna, he managed to slip over during the evening to the Haus der Flieger, where he was official host to a thousand high-ranking officials and diplomats, who were being entertained at a glittering soiree by the orchestra, the singers and the ballet of the State Opera.

For the next couple of minutes he gabbled out something of his life storyhow he was the son of a diplomat, a student at an expat school in the cityand how his harmless flirtation with a pretty girl he spotted at the Pantheon had led him into deep waters.

Whether she realized it or not, this fem diplomat was sending out strong submissive signals.

Two veteran career diplomats, Ulrich von Hassell, the ambassador in Rome, and Herbert von Dirksen, the ambassador in Tokyo, were relieved, as was Papen in Vienna.

If an educated, cultivated and experienced diplomat such as Hassell could be so woolly in his thinking is it any wonder that it was easy for Hitler to take in the mass of the German people?

Instead of going to the Syrian Foreign Ministry as would be expected of a senior UN diplomat in the region to help resolve the bloody conflict just across the border in northern Iraq, he went directly to the Russian Embassy on Omar ben Al-khattab Street in downtown Damascus in a shiny black Lada with Russian diplomatic plates.

They were a liverless lot, thought Kasak contemptuously, and a far remove from Klingon diplomats, who were well able to take care of themselves, and who indeed were selected as representatives of the Empire only after they had already proved themselves as warriors.

The two men moved away, and Grant was now alone, the hands reaching up to him, a sea of silk and flowers, perfume and cigars, politiclans and diplomats and reporters.

Captain Cohen wanted Li and every other diplomat off his ship, to free up passenger space for Muta survivors.

The other two men at the meeting had been introduced as Alessandro Scaglia and Pieter Paul Rubens, diplomats from the Spanish Netherlands.