Synonyms for envoy
ˈɛn vɔɪ, ˈɑn-en·voy

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1. envoy, envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiarynoun

   a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador

   Synonyms:
   envoi, minister plenipotentiary, envoy extraordinary, emissary

2. emissary, envoynoun

   someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else

   Synonyms:
   envoi, minister plenipotentiary, envoy extraordinary, emissary

3. envoy, envoinoun

   a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry

   Synonyms:
   envoi, minister plenipotentiary, envoy extraordinary, emissary

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1. • Diplomat
   • Representative
   • Stanza

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1. envoynoun

   Synonyms:
   minister, ambassador, plenipotentiary

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1. List of paraphrases for "envoy":

   sent, emissary, shipped, corespondent, dispatched, delegate, envoys, forwarded, representative, send, ambassador, submitted

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1. List of known nicknames for "Envoy":

   St. Vitus Dance, Hope Grant

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How to use envoy in a sentence?

1. Omar Hmeidan:

   We have asked the U.N. envoy for an official position on the appointment of a war criminal as the commander of the Libyan army.

2. Adib Shishakly:

   You cannot send a U.N. envoy without political backing of the big players in the U.N. Security Council. De Mistura does not have the tools.

3. State Department:

   While we share the sentiments of the bill, in order to preserve the Secretary’s flexibility to manage the Department, revisions would be appropriate to make mandates and prescriptive provisions into permissive authorities, such that the Secretary would be authorized to set up the office and envoy.

4. Waleed Alhariri:

   The envoy presented his new peace framework to the council last month.The biggest challenges facing this, and previous, UN Special Envoys has been the sequencing of security and political arrangements, the inability to bridge the distrust between the warring parties, and also to have them trust in the UN-led peace process, that said, Griffiths’ proposal is the only platform currently on offer to bring the warring parties together, which is needed to head off Yemen’s precipitous economic collapse and the continued proliferation of new, autonomous armed groups and militias.

5. Adib Shishakly:

   The whole de Mistura thing has been a waste of time. It has been a way of the international community saying they are doing something when actually it means nothing, you cannot send a U.N. envoy without political backing of the big players in the U.N. Security Council. De Mistura does not have the tools.