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Courtesy call
noun
A usually symbolic formal meeting in which a diplomat or representative of a state pays a visit out of courtesy to a head of state or state office holder.
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This is a courtesy call.
Not even a courtesy call, as Martinez has wryly noted.
But when they call you, even at dinnertime, then it's a "courtesy call".
At one point, Anne Natalie Portmann) paid her a courtesy call.
Byrd knew nothing about Stallings but placed a courtesy call anyway.
Before announcing the deal, Mordashov paid a courtesy call to the Kremlin.
"We simply didn't get a courtesy call before he gave a contract out to other people".
He said that he had a courtesy call with Ms. Black when she was appointed, but nothing since.
The Mothers of Srebrenica were last century's news, and Annan's visit to them was a courtesy call.
Next best Courtesy Call (3.10 Doncaster) Found Wolverhampton too sharp on his last two starts, shaping nicely all the same.
It took the mall's security staff a few minutes to realize that this was a courtesy call.
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