Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Negotiable \Ne*go"ti*a*ble\ (? or ?), a. [Cf. F. n['e]gotiable. See Negotiate.] Capable of being negotiated; transferable by assignment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange.
Negotiable paper, any commercial paper transferable by sale or delivery and indorsement, as bills of exchange, drafts, checks, and promissory notes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1749, from negotiate + -able, or from French négociable (17c.). Related: Negotiably; negotiability.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of an obstacle route etc English) Able to be traversed. 2 (context legal finance English) Able to be transferred to another person, with or without endorsement 3 Open to negotiation or bargaining. n. Something that is open to negotiation.
WordNet
adj. capable of being passed or negotiated; "a negotiable road"
able to be negotiated or arranged by compromise; "negotiable demands"; "the proposal is still on the table" [syn: on the table]
legally transferable to the ownership of another; "negotiable bonds" [syn: assignable, conveyable, transferable, transferrable]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "negotiable".
Into the dossier it goes, and eventually the Firm, in Their tireless search for negotiable skills, will summon him under Whitehall, to observe him in his trances across the blue baize fields and the terrible paper gaming, his eyes rolled back into his head reading old, glyptic old graffiti on his own sockets.
The terrain became steeper and rockier but it was still negotiable without resorting to climbing.
The suedette bag, containing twenty-five thousand credits in negotiable bonds, was carried off to a safer place.
As to the alternative, she wanted a negotiable but substantial sum of money and, following a discreet abortion, my energetic assistance in obtaining a candidature for a winnable seat in Parliament.
Sailors and dockhands, soldiers of fortune looking for an outward-bound ship, ladies of negotiable virtue, and the usual assortment of thugs and thieves.
From the conveniently modest-sized seas to the spackling of clear blue lakes, from rolling hills to dramatic yet easily negotiable mountains and everything in between, there were plenty of natural attractions to keep the interested visitor occupied.
Other vehicles, tanks, Bradleys, Humvees and even some trucks, were coming over the ridges where they were negotiable and charging forward, sometimes stopping to pick up infantry but always moving forward.
Some among the ones returning had coinages and other negotiable chips.
He would simply have to get some preliminary results, make an educated guess at which path up the side of the bowl would prove negotiable, and trust he was right.
And although they didn't set out to give the money away to the poor, that was nevertheless what they did (if you accepted that the poor consisted of innkeepers, ladies of negotiable virtue, pickpockets, gamblers and general hangers-on), because although they would go to great lengths to steal money they then had as much control over it as a man trying to herd cats.
He also found a mention of Daves Pin Exchange, up in Dolly Sisters, in an alley between a house of negotiable affection and a massage parlour.
The reason for this might be traced down to the pulps, which at this time were shaping the science fiction genre, minting, as it were, its own coinage which was negotiable only within the field.
It has to be in a bank and then wire transferred to another bank, or be put into a negotiable instrument, like a cashier’.
And this thing is what they call a negotiable instrument, it's like a big check you don't have to sign.
Kzin kittens were usually born as male and female twins and the daughters were a valuable commodity for their fathers, negotiable instruments and presents to both superiors and clients.