gunboat diplomacy

1. 1.

   diplomacy in which the nations threaten to use force in order to obtain their objectives

   Synonymspower politics

   Broaderdiplomacy

Questions about gunboat diplomacy

What does gunboat diplomacy mean?

gunboat diplomacy means "diplomacy in which the nations threaten to use force in order to obtain their objectives".

What is another word for gunboat diplomacy?

Close synonyms include power politics. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gunboat diplomacy a common word?

gunboat diplomacy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.