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Negotiate

//nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement. intransitive

    "1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., to the eight fellow clergymen who opposed the civil rights action, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait "You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.""

  2. 2
    discuss the terms of an arrangement wordnet
  3. 3
    To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement. transitive

    "We negotiated the contract to everyone's satisfaction."

  4. 4
    succeed in passing through, around, or over wordnet
  5. 5
    To succeed in coping with, getting over or navigate a hazard or obstacle. transitive

    "We negotiated the mountain track with difficulty."

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  1. 6
    To transfer to another person with all the rights of the original holder; to pass, as a bill. transitive
  2. 7
    To transact business; to carry on trade. obsolete

    "Jews, Turks, Armenians,[…]negotiating in this famous Emporium."

  3. 8
    To intrigue; to scheme. obsolete

    "Certaine it is, shee was a busie negotiating woman."

Etymology

c. 1598; borrowed from Latin negōtiātus, perfect active participle of negōtior (“to do business, trade”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from negotium (“business”) + -or, from nec (“not”) + otium (“leisure, ease, inactivity”).

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