summitry

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President Barack Obama rolls up his sleeves with world leaders for a full day of economic summitry -- and more first-time meetings with key U.S. allies.

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  1. noun The holding of a summit conference: "Modern summitry began at Versailles in 1919” (George F. Will).
  2. noun Participation in summit conferences.

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  • President Barack Obama rolls up his sleeves with world leaders for a full day of economic summitry -- and more first-time meetings with key U.S. allies. —  WSBTV.com - Local News
  • Putin's visit to Dresden, preceded by several Russian planeloads of security staff, cars, and equipment, came amid a flurry of competing summitry to try to settle —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Addressing the 12th Annual Conference on Trade and Investment in the Americas, hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in Washington D.C. on September 11, the Ambassador said the Summit must also serve "to rejuvenate and strengthen the process of inter-american summitry and cooperation." —  Caribbean Net News Daily Headlines
  • Last week was a triumph for summitry and spin, but the Prime Minister should beware of burdening the country with even more debt, says —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
  • Though most of the summitry going on this week in London and elsewhere will be focussing on economics, the final end (more or less) of European involvement in Iraq is a good time to ask which direction the continent's various militaries should be taking. —  A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros
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