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shuttlecock diplomacy

shuttlecock diplomacy is the alternative form of shuttle diplomacy.

Meaning of shuttle diplomacy

Noun

shuttle diplomacy (countable and uncountable, plural shuttle diplomacies)

  1. Use of a neutral third party to negotiate peace between two groups of people that refuse to directly talk with each other.
    • The White House denied today that it would conduct quiet “shuttle diplomacy” with Chinese diplomats at the United Nations on matters directly involving Washington and Peking.1971 November 16, “U.S. Denies Report On China Relations”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of shuttlecock diplomacy

pluralshuttlecock diplomacies

Questions about shuttlecock diplomacy

What is shuttlecock diplomacy the alternative form of?
Shuttlecock diplomacy is the alternative form of shuttle diplomacy.

Words near shuttlecock diplomacy in the dictionary

  1. shuttleboxes
  2. shuttlebus
  3. shuttlebuses
  4. shuttlecock
  5. shuttlecock diplomacies
  6. shuttlecock diplomacy
  7. shuttlecocked
  8. shuttlecocking
  9. shuttlecocks
  10. shuttlecork
  11. shuttlecraft

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shuttlecock diplomacy (page history and authors); shuttle 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.

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