gunboat diplomacies
gunboat diplomacies is the plural of gunboat diplomacy.
Meaning of gunboat diplomacy
Noun
gunboat diplomacy (countable and uncountable, plural gunboat diplomacies)
- The pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of military power.
- The British and French, who had sought to make policy by reviving 19th century gunboat diplomacy, had temporarily lost their credentials for world statesmanship.1956 Dec. 3, Acclaim & Misgivings, Time
Questions about gunboat diplomacies
- What is gunboat diplomacies the plural of?
- Gunboat diplomacies is the plural of gunboat diplomacy.
Words near gunboat diplomacies in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gunboat diplomacies (page history and authors); gunboat diplomacy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “gunboat diplomacies.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gunboat_diplomacies. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.