diplomatic corpsnoun [ C usually singular, + sing/pl verb ]
uk/dɪp.ləˈmæt.ɪk ˌkɔːr/us/dɪp.ləˈmæt̬.ɪk ˌkɔːr/all the people from one country who work in another country as diplomats
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International relations: diplomacy & mediation
- ambassador
- ambassadorial
- appease
- attaché
- bargaining chip
- diplomat
- diplomatic
- diplomatic bag
- diplomatic immunity
- diplomatic relations
- intercede
- intercession
- internationalism
- interventionist
- legation
- liaison
- mediate
- middleman
- minister
- Pax
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Examples from literature
- At a foreign court as an ambassador his dinners, of which the diplomatic corps still spoke with emotion, had upheld the dignity of ninety million Americans.
- He had been appointed to the diplomatic corps, and we were to sail for England within a month!
- The Acting Secretary of State will communicate this sad intelligence to the diplomatic corps near this Government and, through our ministers abroad, to foreign governments.
- The diplomatic corps in the time of the Empire was not brilliant.
- The whole diplomatic corps moves from an anteroom into an apartment in which the prince of Wales awaits them.