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/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

... loses sight for a moment of his object, and while he is chaffing Yankees, and slapping them on the back, he is systematically pursuing that object";[32] and again, "There was concluded in {222} exactly a fortnight a treaty, to negotiate which had taxed the inventive genius of the Foreign Office, and all the conventional methods of diplomacy, for the ...

— British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government - 1839-1854 • J. L. Morison

... the stream. While this was going on General Aguinaldo called a council of war, at San Isidro, at which fifty-six of his main followers were present. By a vote it was found that twenty were for peace, twenty for war, and sixteen wished to negotiate with the United States for better terms. This gathering gave rise to a rumor that the war would terminate inside of forty-eight hours. Alas! it was still to drag on for ...

— The Campaign of the Jungle - or, Under Lawton through Luzon • Edward Stratemeyer

... to negotiate with Belgium for passage of army; Germans bombard Point-a-Mousson; Germans move on Brussels and are driven back by Belgians' left wing; Germans report victory in Alsace; Germans reported to have shot French wounded; ...

— The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 • Various

... consented to negotiate on this basis. In October 1907 an agreement was attained, thanks chiefly to the sobering of Hungarian opinion by a severe economic crisis, which brought out with unusual clearness the fact that separation from Austria would involve a period of distress if not of commercial ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various

... fortified himself at Inverary, and summoned a meeting of the Estates to which the chiefs of the Royalist party had been bidden. To conquer him in his own stronghold would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to English soldiers unused to such warfare. Cromwell wisely preferred to negotiate, and Argyle was not hard to bring to terms. He bound himself to live at peace with the Government, and to use his best endeavours to persuade others to do so. In return he was to be left unmolested in the free enjoyment of his estates, and ...

— Claverhouse • Mowbray Morris

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