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diplomacy
English
Etymology
From French diplomatie, a back-formation from diplomatique, ultimately from Latin diploma (“letter of recommendation or authority”); see diploma.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??pl??m?si/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??plo?m?si/
- Hyphenation: di?plom?a?cy
Noun
diplomacy (countable and uncountable, plural diplomacies)
- The art and practice of conducting international relations by negotiating alliances, treaties, agreements etc., bilaterally or multilaterally, between states and sometimes international organizations, or even between polities with varying status, such as those of monarchs and their princely vassals.
- Synonyms: statesmanship, statecraft
- Hyponyms: dollar diplomacy, gastrodiplomacy
- Tact and subtle skill in dealing with people so as to avoid or settle hostility.
Derived terms
- dollar diplomacy
- gastrodiplomacy
Related terms
- diploma
- diplomat
- diplomatic
- diplomatist
Translations
Further reading
- diplomacy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- diplomacy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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finesse
English
Etymology
From Middle English f?nesse (“degree of excellence; (of metal) fineness, purity”), from Middle French finesse, Old French finesse (“fineness; delicacy; slenderness”), from fine, fin (“fine, thin”) (from Latin f?nis (“end”); compare Middle English f?n (“of superior quality; precious, valuable; admirable, pleasing; pure, refined; fineness, purity; delicate, exquisite, fine; sharp, thin”)) + -esse (suffix forming nouns describing the condition of being something).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??n?s/, /f?-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f??n?s/, /f?-/
- Hyphenation: fin?esse
Noun
finesse (countable and uncountable, plural finesses)
- (uncountable) Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation. [from c. 1520]
- Synonym: finessing
- (uncountable) The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill. [from mid 16th c.]
- (countable) An adroit manoeuvre. [from mid 16th c.]
- (countable, card games) In bridge, whist, etc.: a technique which allows one to win a trick, usually by playing a card when it is thought that a card that can beat it is held by another player whose turn is over. [from early 18th c.]
Translations
Verb
finesse (third-person singular simple present finesses, present participle finessing, simple past and past participle finessed)
- (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, politics) To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or strategem.
- 2018, John C. Hull, Options, Futures and Other Derivatives (10th ed.), Pearson (2018), p. 276
- Almost miraculously, [risk-neutral valuation] finesses the problem that we know hardly anything about the risk aversion of the buyers and sellers of options.
- 2018, John C. Hull, Options, Futures and Other Derivatives (10th ed.), Pearson (2018), p. 276
- (transitive, card games) To play (a card) as a finesse. [from mid 18th c.]
- (transitive, intransitive) To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way. [from mid 18th c.]
- Synonym: (slang) zhoosh
- (intransitive, card games) To attempt to win a trick by finessing. [from mid 18th c.]
- (intransitive, croquet, obsolete) To play a ball out of the way of an opponent.
Derived terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- finesse (card games) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- finesse (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From fin +? -esse
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi.n?s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Noun
finesse f (plural finesses)
- fineness (of hair, writing etc.)
- thinness
- keenness, sharpness (of blade)
- fineness, delicacy; slenderness
- perceptiveness; sensitivity, finesse
Further reading
- “finesse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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