DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diplomatic negotiations mean? 

• DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS (noun)
  The noun DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS has 1 sense:

1. negotiation between nations

  Familiarity information: DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Negotiation between nations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

diplomacy; diplomatic negotiations

Hypernyms ("diplomatic negotiations" is a kind of...):

dialogue; negotiation; talks (a discussion intended to produce an agreement)

Domain member category:

convention ((diplomacy) an international agreement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diplomatic negotiations"):

dollar diplomacy (diplomacy influenced by economic considerations)

gunboat diplomacy; power politics (diplomacy in which the nations threaten to use force in order to obtain their objectives)

recognition (the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country)

shuttle diplomacy (international negotiations conducted by a mediator who frequently flies back and forth between the negotiating parties)

Instance hyponyms:

SALT; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons)