(diplomacy, slang) The situation where an organization's resident in-country staff come to regard the officials and people of the host country as "clients", and thus lose touch with the norms and aims
(diplomacy, slang) The situation where an organization's resident in-country staff come to regard the officials and people of the host country as "clients", and thus lose touch with the norms and aims of their home country.
Their relationship with the governments in their region is usually one of warmth and understanding, often described as “clientitis” or “clientism.”
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(diplomacy, now, rare) , the diplomatic corps of a particular country.
(US) A collection of clients.
(derogatory, politics, socialism, slang) A leftist who supports any country/organization simply for being opposed to the United States or the West, including authoritarian governments who would otherwise not follow leftist beliefs.
(US, politics, transitive) To bring about Clintonism.
(slang) A person who had a parent working as a diplomat and thus travelled around as a child.