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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(humorous, nonstandard) To engage in the professional work of an ambassador..
Politics, graft, war, sport and scandal are aired in turn, but the "ambassador" fails to ambass — the "worker" fails to work — the "messenger" makes a mess of it.
"Therefore," said Kirk, […] "Shipping her back in box is not one of the options, […] this will require the skills of an Ambassador. So you're going to have to […] Ambass."
How fruitless attempts to involve us in war With HIM to AMBASS and with HER to ADOR.
The home of an American Ambassador should express America not the country to which he is sent to Ambass.
... cut off from their governments and obliged to rely on their own wisdom, knowledge and experience, when they had, in a word, to ambass. Nowadays they pick up the phone and the State Department, for better or worse, tells then what to do.
I have always maintained there was something wrong with Ambassadors, as none of them seemed to ambass properly.
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Ambass means (humorous, nonstandard) To engage in the professional work of an ambassador..
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Politics, graft, war, sport and scandal are aired in turn, but the "ambassador" fails to ambass — the "worker" fails to work — the "messenger" makes a mess of it.
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