| 单词 | gunboat diplomacy |
| 释义 | gunboat diplomacynoundiplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force, especially by a powerful nation against a weaker one. Origin of gunboat diplomacyFirst recorded in 1925–30 Words nearby gunboat diplomacygumweed, gumwood, gun, guna, gunboat, gunboat diplomacy, gun brig, gun camera, gun carriage, gun control, guncotton Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for gunboat diplomacygunboat diplomacy noundiplomacy conducted by threats of military intervention, esp by a major power against a militarily weak state Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for gunboat diplomacygunboat diplomacy A policy toward a foreign country that depends on the use, or threat of the use, of arms. (See big stick diplomacy.) The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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