Overture | Meaning + Examples
Description
overture (to someone)
(usually plural) a suggestion or an action by which someone tries to make friends, start a business relationship, have discussions, etc. with someone else
Two Example Dialogues Using ‘Overture’
: I’ve caught wind of some internal shuffling over at Lufthansa. This may give us the chance to get our foot in the door with their hotel contracts.
: That’s good thinking. I’ll put together a pricing package and make overtures by the end of the week.
: The United States will be making diplomatic overtures to Genovia this week in an attempt to soften tensions in the region.
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Examples of ‘Overture’ from the News
“His tentative peace overtures to the Kurds in south-eastern Turkey soured when he refused to help Syrian Kurds battling Islamic State jihadists.”
– BBC News, “Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Turkey’s pugnacious president”, 24 June 2019
“Recent signs that Japan and South Korea are making subtle overtures to each other have raised hopes that they are moving toward de-escalating their diplomatic feud.”
– Ryotaro Nakamaru, “Despite subtle overtures, Japan-South Korea dispute likely to drag on”, 22 August 2019
Special Notes on the Word ‘Overture’
Today’s word of the day is a great vocabulary word to use on the TOEFL or the IELTS, and it’s one that comes up often in business settings, too. To help you use it correctly, here are a few collocations with ‘overture’:
- make overtures (to someone)
- respond to (someone’s) overtures
- reject (someone’s) overtures
- diplomatic overtures
- peace overtures
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Pronunciation of ‘Overture’
/ˈoʊvərtʃər/
Sources: Definition of ‘Overture’
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