summitryn.
/ˈsʌmᵻtri/, U.S. /ˈsəmətri/ The practice of holding or participating in summit meetings, or of using them as a diplomatic strategy; summit meetings collectively.
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1958 Slavonic & East European Rev. 37 308 ‘Summitry’ has been much in our minds, so it is as well to begin with the heads of government meeting in Geneva in July 1955.
1979 Washington Post 17 June a1/1 The American president begins his first day of summitry with the aged Soviet leader.
2016 Japan Times (Nexis) 10 Sept. (Opinion section) There is considerable, and justifiable, skepticism about international summitry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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