Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or belonging to an ambassador. Also written
embassadorial .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an ambassador.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an
ambassador .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors
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Examples
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All the same, he understood that his long tenure brought with it certain ambassadorial obligations from time to time.
A Life's Work 2005
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All the same, he understood that his long tenure brought with it certain ambassadorial obligations from time to time.
A Life's Work 2005
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All the same, he understood that his long tenure brought with it certain ambassadorial obligations from time to time.
A Life's Work 2005
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(Washington, DC) President Clinton named three senior Foreign Service officers to key Latin American ambassadorial posts today, announcing his intention to nominate John Maisto to be Ambassador to Nicaragua, James Cheek to be Ambassador to Argentina, and William Pryce to be Ambassador to Honduras.
Todays Nominations ITY National Archives 1993
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One extremely speculative explanation for why you wouldn’t want to appoint him would be that it might look weird to have two retired generals in ambassadorial positions in both Iraq and Afghanistan (although being a general in an overseas command during the last 15 years has frequently required a massive diplomatic component).
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I'm staunchly myself, yet I seem to have a kind of ambassadorial quality and ease with talking to folks who would not like any of my "labels."
Archive 2007-10-01 Tia Nevitt 2007
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I'm staunchly myself, yet I seem to have a kind of ambassadorial quality and ease with talking to folks who would not like any of my "labels."
An Interview With Carole McDonnell Tia Nevitt 2007
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I’m ready for a short-term ambassadorial appointment. —
Bush Struggles to Fill Posts as Term Winds Down - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Properties, which has retained the terrace's alabaster-pillared exterior, but transformed the space behind it into what it terms "ambassadorial" homes.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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COPE said members were being offered sweeteners such as ambassadorial positions, government directorships, and other cushy jobs to lure them back to the ruling party.
IOL: News 2009
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