diplo-speak

English

Noun

diplo-speak (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of diplospeak
   • 2013, Jody Williams, My Name Is Jody Williams:

     Nor was I particularly interested in learning diplo-speak.

   • 2014, Fred Burton, Samuel M. Katz, Under Fire:

     An embassy is where meetings are conducted in the polite foreign language known as “diplo-speak”; direct language, “real-speak,” is never used.

   • 2016, Reese Erlich, Stephen Kinzer, Dateline Havana:

     It was standard diplo-speak, but it enraged Miami's ultrarightists.