envoys

noun

plural of envoy
1
as in ambassadors
a person sent on a mission to represent another the president sent the secretary of state as his personal envoy to gain the support of the country's allies

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2
as in delegates
a person who acts or does business for another one of the students was chosen as the club's envoy in meetings with the principal

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Recent Examples of envoys Less than two decades later, the bond was tested by a scandal known as the XYZ Affair, in which France’s foreign minister, Talleyrand, demanded bribes from American envoys to Paris. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026 Trump’s envoys have also proposed that Europe increase purchases of Russian gas as part of an effort to gain the Kremlin’s support for peace—further complicating the efforts of Ukraine and its remainingallies to squeeze Russia. — Tatiana Mitrova, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2026 Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Moscow hopes a meeting in Russia between the envoys and Russian President Vladimir Putin can be organized soon, perhaps as early as Wednesday. — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026 Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, flit between the two productions. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026 The Republican president's special envoys such as Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Tom Barrack have taken the lead on those matters. — ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026 The top trade envoys for China and the European Union agreed Friday on a broad initial deal following two days of talks aimed at calming escalating tensions over trade imbalances, the EU trade commissioner said. — Sam McNeil, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026 Iroquois envoys regularly visited colonists, both to size up their ambitious rivals and to give advice on how to survive on an American continent where Native American culture dominated. — Scott Baldauf, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2026 The envoys held extensive conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow the day before. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for envoys
  1. ambassadors
  2. delegates
  3. representatives
  4. deputies
  5. ministers
  6. agents
  7. attorneys
Noun
  • The president leads the armed forces and can veto legislation, signs international treaties and appoints ambassadors.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
  • While Washington has remained silent on the matter, the ambassadors of France and Spain in Haiti have both raised concerns about the modifications.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of ambassadors
Noun
  • Late last month, roughly 100 dockworker delegates from four countries rallied outside DP World’s Centerm terminal at the Port of Vancouver, following an international anti-automation summit that included Montreal’s own CUPE Local 375.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The French gêne par procuration delegates discomfort, while the German Fremdschämen means foreign shame.
    — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of delegates
Noun
  • Jong-kyu Hwang, Hanwha Power’s Vice President of Technology Solutions, attended alongside senior ABS representatives.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Its sales representatives are individually building personal Gmail scripts, at night, in Google Apps Script, to survive an inbox that the AI-first version of the same company would have automated a year ago.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of representatives
Noun
  • While county police officers became deputies under Cordero-Stutz’s authority, county correctional officers remained under Levine Cava’s authority.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Videos posted on social media show deputies also used pepper spray as race attendees surrounded them and threw objects.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of deputies
Noun
  • The initiative is also part of a cooperation Program for the cinema and audiovisual sectors signed in June 2026 by Italian and French cultural ministers, and with an expert group meeting for the first time at the MIA conference.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026
  • With tensions rising between Israel’s far-right ministers and Hamas, the arrangement had run its course, Qatar believed.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of ministers
Noun
  • In December 2024, FBI agents and local police arrested the men during pre-dawn raids on their homes in Miami Beach and their parents’ home in Bal Harbour.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
  • With the sun low in the sky, protesters took to the streets of Woodland on Tuesday to demand action against federal immigration agents.
    — Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of agents
Noun
  • His order bars Essayli from participating in or supervising their cases, including overseeing the attorneys handling them.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Prosecutors had asked Caproni to sentence each brother to life in prison, while their attorneys sought the 15-year minimum.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of attorneys

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