Definition of "diplomatic mission" [diplomatic mission]

• A group of people (including diplomats) from one nation present in another as authorized representatives of the first (noun)

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• "His "Despatches" from Rome and the "Relazione" written at the end of his diplomatic mission reveal his great political foresight, by his accurate estimate of men and affairs at Rome, and which are equal to those of the greatest Venetian ambassadors."
• "The Tuesday “press conference” at the legation in Hungary the United States deliberately did not call their diplomatic mission a full fledged embassy was part of their routine, even when the only Western press left were Endre and Ilona Marton."
• "Flanders, Spain, Milan, Naples, and Rome for some twenty years, until the duke died in 1607, on the point of setting out for a diplomatic mission to Germany, on which Fitzherbert was to have accompanied him."