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Negotiate   /nəgˈoʊʃiˌeɪt/  /nɪgˈoʊʃiˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Negotiate  v. t.  (past & past part. negotiated; pres. part. negotiating)  
1.
To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange. "Constantinople had negotiated in the isles of the Archipelago... the most indispensable supplies."
2.
To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass. "The notes were not negotiated to them in the usual course of business or trade."


Negotiate  v. i.  
1.
To transact business; to carry on trade. (Obs.)
2.
To treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm.
3.
To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, convention, or other proposed agreement; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences. "He that negotiates between God and man Is God's ambassador."
4.
To intrigue; to scheme. (Obs.)





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"Negotiate" Quotes from Famous Books



... ready cash, he felt he could even negotiate the awkward circumstance that he himself was deeply in debt to Mukhum Dass at the time of the murder. Money and brains combined can accomplish practically anything. Delhi and Bombay and Calcutta were full of clever lawyers. The point was, he must hurry. And he did not dare trust any one with ...
— Guns of the Gods • Talbot Mundy
... was only a brief truce, which England never designed to observe but temporarily. She refused to respect its obligations, and even to negotiate for its modification. She feared that peace would enable Napoleon to ...
— The Continental Monthly, Volume V. Issue I • Various
... my father resolved to initiate me in commerce, and, opening one of his subterranean treasuries, counted out ten thousand pieces of gold. This, young man, said he, is the stock with which you must negotiate. I began with less than the fifth part, and you see how diligence and parsimony have increased it. This is your own, to waste or to improve. If you squander it by negligence or caprice, you must wait for my death, before ...
— Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 - The Works Of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., In Nine Volumes • Samuel Johnson
... ill-situated cantonment we occupy, the near approach of winter, our communications cut off, no prospect of relief, and the whole country in arms against us, I am of opinion that it is not feasible any longer to maintain our position in this country, and that you ought to avail yourself of the offer to negotiate that has been made ...
— Indian Frontier Policy • General Sir John Ayde
... forests supply us with wood: Ostia supplies us with everything else that cannot be got in yonder village. You see how I live and enjoy myself, and you must be a very ingrained cit indeed if you do not instantly decide to settle down amongst us. There is a little farm not far off: let me negotiate it for you." ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various


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