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envoy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | emissary |
| Type of | representative |
| Has types | legate, official emissary |
envoy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary |
| Type of | diplomat, diplomatist |
Examples of envoy
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After their first Oval Office meeting, Obama appointed a special envoy to Sudan.
From the newsweek.com
He controlled patronage, from the envoy to China to the postmaster in St. Louis.
From the theatlantic.com
Doss, the U.N. envoy, vowed to keep Rutshuru and other towns out of rebel hands.
From the usatoday.com
The trip comes two weeks after Chinese nuclear envoy Wu Dawei visited Pyongyang.
From the newsobserver.com
The U.S. plans to send an envoy to an April 23 conference on piracy in Brussels.
From the latimes.com
But Ahmad Fawzi, a spokesman for special envoy Kofi Annan, had no other details.
From the independent.co.uk
On the trip Mrs Clinton brought her special envoy on climate change, Todd Stern.
From the economist.com
Wu Dawei, China's North Korean envoy, will be in Washington this week for talks.
From the dealbook.nytimes.com
The envoy, former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, was Pakistan's friend, it said.
From the guardian.co.uk
- A diplomat having less authority than an ambassador
- Emissary: someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
- A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
- In diplomacy, an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary is, under the terms of the Congress of Vienna of 1815, a diplomat of the second class, ranking between an Ambassador and a Minister Resident.
- The Envoy (David Harstein) is a fictional character from the Wild Cards anthology series, first appearing in the story "Witness" by Walter Jon Williams in the first book of the series, Wild Cards.
- In computing, Envoy was a portable document file format marketed by WordPerfect Corporation, created as a competitor for Acrobat Pro. It was introduced by Tumbleweed Communications Corporation in 1993 and shipped with WordPerfect Office in March 1994.
- The Envoy is an album by American singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, released in 1982 by Asylum (see 1982 in music). It is considered to be the least well-known of his major-label studio recordings because it was not released on compact disc until 2006. ...
- Representative; diplomat; messenger; a short stanza at the end of a poem
- The shorter final stanza of a poem, as in a ballade.
