c. 1598;borrowed fromLatinnegōtiātus,perfectactiveparticiple ofnegōtior(“to do business, trade”) (see-ate(verb-forming suffix)), fromnegotium(“business”) +-or, fromnec(“not”) +otium(“leisure, ease, inactivity”).
negotiate (third-person singular simple presentnegotiates,present participlenegotiating,simple past and past participlenegotiated)
- (intransitive) Toconfer with others in order to come toterms or reach anagreement.
- 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 tonegotiate is forced to confront the issue."
- (transitive) Toarrange orsettle something bymutualagreement.
2013 July 19,Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 6, page18:Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.[…]The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down tonegotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
Wenegotiated the contract to everyone's satisfaction.
The client and server computers must firstnegotiate a network protocol to be used.
- (transitive) Tosucceed incoping with, getting over or navigate a hazard or obstacle.
Wenegotiated the mountain track with difficulty.
Although the car was quite rickety, he couldnegotiate the curves very well.
- (transitive) Totransfer to another person with all the rights of the original holder; topass, as abill.
- (obsolete) Totransactbusiness; to carry ontrade.
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- (obsolete) Tointrigue; toscheme.
confer to reach an agreement (intransitive)
- Albanian:please add this translation if you can
- Arabic:تَفَاوَضَ(tafāwaḍa)
- Armenian:բանակցել (hy)(banakcʻel)
- Bulgarian:уговарям (bg)(ugovarjam),уреждам (bg)(ureždam)
- Catalan:negociar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:談判 /谈判 (zh)(tánpàn),協商 /协商 (zh)(xiéshāng),交涉 (zh)(jiāoshè)
- Czech:vyjednávat
- Dutch:onderhandelen (nl)
- Esperanto:trakti
- Estonian:läbirääkimisipidama (et)
- French:négocier (fr)
- Galician:negociar
- Georgian:please add this translation if you can
- German:verhandeln (de)
- Greek:διαπραγματεύομαι (el)(diapragmatévomai)
- Hungarian:tárgyal (hu)
- Italian:negoziare (it)
- Japanese:交渉する (ja)(こうしょうする, kōshō suru),折衝する (ja)(せっしょうする, sesshō suru)
- Korean:교섭하다 (ko)(gyoseophada)
- Latin:agō (la)
- Latvian:vestsarunas
- Lithuanian:derėtis
- Lü:ᦏᦲᦏᦸ(ṫhiiṫhoa)
- Maori:whiriwhiri
- Mon:ပ္ညဳပ္ညပ်ဗ္ဂပ်ဖျပ်,ပ္ညဳပ္ညပ်
- Mongolian:please add this translation if you can
- Ngazidja Comorian:ufanya shauri
- Norwegian:forhandle (no)
- Occitan:negociar (oc)
- Polish:negocjować (pl) impf
- Portuguese:negociar (pt)
- Romanian:discuta (ro)
- Russian:вести́перегово́ры impf(vestí peregovóry),провести́перегово́ры pf(provestí peregovóry)
- Slovak:rokovať
- Spanish:negociar (es)
- Swedish:förhandla (sv),underhandla (sv)
- Thai:ต่อรอง (th)(dtɔ̀ɔ-rɔɔng)
- Turkish:müzakere (tr)etmek (tr)
- Ukrainian:вести́перегово́ри impf(vestý perehovóry)
- Vietnamese:thương thuyết (vi) (商說),đàm phán (vi) (談判),thương thảo (商討),thương lượng (vi) (商量),hiệp thương (vi) (協商)
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arrange a mutual agreement (transitive)
coping with, getting over
- “negotiate”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “negotiate”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
negōtiāte
- vocativemasculinesingular ofnegōtiātus
