DIPLOMATIC

[adjective]The two leaders have been involved in lengthy diplomatic (= involving the management of the relationships between countries) negotiations.(figurative approving) Ask him nicely - be diplomatic (= act in a way that does not cause offence).Britain threatened to break off diplomatic relations (= the arrangement between two countries by which each has representatives in the other country).A diplomatic bag/diplomatic pouch is a container in which letters are sent between countries' representatives in other countries, and which is not examined by officials who control what goods are allowed into a country.The guns were smuggled into the embassy in the diplomatic bag.The diplomatic corps are all the people who work in one country as representatives of another country.Diplomatic immunity means the special rights that diplomats have while working in a country that is not their own, such as freedom from legal action.He did not have to pay his speeding fine because he pleaded diplomatic immunity.The diplomatic service is the government department that employs people to represent their country in other parts of the world.