English Dictionary

masterly inactivity

名詞

不可算名詞

(politics, public policy) A policy of deliberate inactivity, carried out with diplomatic skill, so as to preserve a predominant influence without risking anything.

日本語の意味

外交的手腕を発揮して、主導権を保持しつつ、リスクを避けるために敢えて無為の政策を採ること / 主要な影響力を失うことなく、積極的な介入を控えるという戦略的な静観政策

The foreign minister relied on masterly inactivity to keep his country influential without provoking conflict.

外相は、自国の影響力を維持しつつ対立を招かないために、巧妙な不作為に頼った。

意味（1）

(politics, public policy) A policy of deliberate inactivity, carried out with diplomatic skill, so as to preserve a predominant influence without risking anything.

Majority Leader Alben Barkley had advised patience and silence, to let the isolationists wear themselves out. This plan of masterly inactivity had flopped frightfully.