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statecraft

statecraft noun: synonym of statesmanship (“the ability to guide a state well”).

Noun

statecraft (countable and uncountable, plural statecrafts)

  1. Synonym of statesmanship (“the ability to guide a state well”).
    • The conduct of the meeting and the passing of intelligence is simply amateurish statecraft and intelligence tradecraft, and begs the question: Who are the professionals planning the strategy and operations that direct the President on the world stage?2017 May 16, Mark Hertling, “Trump had the right to do it, but should he have?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2017
    • More than just a corporate juggernaut, Nvidia also has become an instrument of statecraft, operating at the nexus of advanced technology, diplomacy, and geopolitics.2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2025
    Synonyms:
    statesmanship

statecraft meaning in Tamil and Bengali

statecraft in Tamil

நாடாண்கலை, ஆட்சிக்கலை, நாடாண்திறன், நாட்டை ஆளும் கலை

statecraft in Bengali

রাষ্ট্র পরিচালনার শিল্প, দক্ষতা, কৌশল, দূরদর্শী নেতৃত্ব

Synonyms of statecraft

Forms of statecraft

pluralstatecrafts
alternative formstatescraft

Origin of statecraft

From state + -craft.

Words formed from statecraft

Questions about statecraft

What does statecraft mean?
Statecraft means synonym of statesmanship (“the ability to guide a state well”).
What is statecraft in Tamil?
Statecraft in Tamil is நாடாண்கலை, ஆட்சிக்கலை, நாடாண்திறன். See Statecraft meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is statecraft?
Statecraft is a noun.
What is the plural of statecraft?
The plural of statecraft is statecrafts.

Words near statecraft in the dictionary

  1. stateable
  2. stateball
  3. stateballs
  4. statechart
  5. statecharts
  6. statecraft
  7. statecrafts
  8. statecraftship
  9. statecrafty
  10. stated
  11. stated income

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: statecraft (page history and authors); statecraft (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); statecraft (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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