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Negotiant

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who conducts negotiations; a negotiator, an agent. archaic, historical

    "Ambassadors, negotiants, and generally all other ministers of mean fortune, in conversation with princes and superiors, must use great respect"

  2. 2
    someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) wordnet
  3. 3
    A trader or merchant; a businessman; a financier. obsolete

    "Such was the scarcity of bread, that a French gentleman told me, that, the day preceding the taking of the Bastille, he was invited to dine with a Negotiant, and, when he went, was informed that a servant had been out five hours in search of bread, and had at last been able to purchase only one loaf."

Etymology

From French négociant, or its source, Latin negōtiant-, probably via Italian negoziante (“merchant”).

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