Negotiate
[nɪ'gəʊʃɪeɪt] or [nɪ'ɡoʃɪet]
Definition
(verb.) succeed in passing through, around, or over; 'The hiker negociated the high mountain pass'.
Checked by Felicia--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To transact business; to carry on trade.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or convention; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences.
(v. i.) To intrigue; to scheme.
(v. t.) To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange.
(v. t.) To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass.
Editor: Matt
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Treat, bargain.
v. a. [1]. Treat for, arrange for.[2]. Pass, put into circulation.
Editor: Rufus
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Transact, effect, pass, perform
ANT:Mismanage, misconduct, quash, stop
Edited by Diana
Definition
v.i. to carry on business: to bargain: to hold intercourse for the purpose of mutual arrangement.—v.t. to arrange for by agreement: to manage: to transfer to another with all the rights of the original holder: to pass as a bill: to sell.—ns. Negotiā′tion act of negotiating: the treating with another on business; Negō′tiator; Negō′tiatrix.—adj. Negotiā′tory of or pertaining to negotiation.
Typist: Robbie
Examples
- He could not well negotiate the trees with his awkward burden, but he kept to the trails, and so made fairly good time. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Why did not his son take this lamp to Mr. Eaton's office in 1882, when he tried to negotiate the sale of his father's inventions to the Edison Company? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- My name was unfortunately too well known on such documents: he failed to negotiate it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- They dismantled their machines, made public statements of what they had accomplished, and started to negotiate with various governments for the purchase of their aeroplanes for use in war. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I have tried to get this statement off at par here, but with no success; so I have been obliged to negotiate it at fifty percent discount. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Byzantine found it more easy to negotiate with the Ottoman Pasha than with the Pope. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To our disappointment the panel eluded our every effort to negotiate its secret lock. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I do not mean to be conferred in Baptism upon our children, but to be inscribed on Bills of Exchange, and negotiated in the Money Market. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I led them to the palace walls, which I negotiated easily without assistance. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I won't weary you with the account of how we bargained and negotiated. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He negotiated on equal terms with the Chinese emperor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He is negotiating with the Jew, I suppose, replied De Bracy, coolly; probably the howls of Isaac have drowned the blast of the bugle. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Are you negotiating a matter of importance? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Eckert was secretly negotiating with Gould to leave the Western Union and take charge of the Atlantic & Pacific--Gould's company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Susie