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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



... bed was beyond Jessie's powers to negotiate. They stood looking across it at the inviting shades of an avenue of heavy red willows, with its winding alley of tawny grass fringing the stately pine woods, whose depths suggested the chastened aisles of some ...
— The Triumph of John Kars - A Story of the Yukon • Ridgwell Cullum
... adversaries disarmed, continued to negotiate an arrangement by means of the pope; but at the same time sent secretly to the mountains of Pistoia for infantry, which, with what other forces they could collect, were brought into Florence by night. Having ...
— History Of Florence And Of The Affairs Of Italy - From The Earliest Times To The Death Of Lorenzo The Magnificent • Niccolo Machiavelli
... associations. Some were privy to, if not participants in, devilish plots to spread fire and pestilence in northern camps and cities, Partly through influence of the more moderate, several efforts to negotiate peace were made, fortunately every ...
— History of the United States, Volume 4 • E. Benjamin Andrews
... effect, if possible, the exchange of himself and officers for certain of General Morgan's officers then in prison and, failing in that, to report as prisoner within the Confederate lines. He was not permitted to negotiate the exchange and his escort ...
— History of Morgan's Cavalry • Basil W. Duke
... anew—remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never ...
— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various


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