The Collaborative International Dictionary
Negotiate \Ne*go"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Negotiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Negotiating.]
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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.
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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.
--Kent.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of negotiate English)
Usage examples of "negotiating".
I was the stealthiest and craftiest of all the Achaeans, and also, because I had been within the walls of Troy before, more then ten years earlier, sent there to lead a delegation tasked with peacefully negotiating the release of Helen before our black ships arrived in force and a war began.
After a slight but grateful compliment, he told me that if I thought myself capable of negotiating a loan of a hundred millions to bear interest at four per cent.
Doctor Wright had to tap her on the arm to remind her that Bep had sailed away from the gallery and was negotiating a corridor leading to the back of the house.
Negotiating the stairs with difficulty, while all bipeds fled at their approach, the ill-assorted party arrived at Room 388.
Unnerving, because Hel was now totally dependent on the cable, after ninety minutes of negotiating the narrow, twisting shaft with its bottlenecks, narrow ledges, tricky dihedrons, and tight passages down which he had to ease himself gingerly, never surrendering to gravity because the cable was slack to give him maneuvering freedom.
The same soldiers who only a few weeks earlier had been deciphering German battle plans were now unraveling the codes and ciphers wound tightly around Argentine negotiating points.
Somewhere in the quarter of an hour Jimmy had been negotiating with Dave from Eejit, The Commitments had broken up.
Having only just discovered the shocking news that megalomaniacal dictators do not always keep their promises, the Times again insisted that Bush rush back to the negotiating table.
Also, when truce negotiations began in July 1951, ASA units eavesdropped on meetings among the North Korean negotiating team.
He had not realized quite how far-flung these gateways were, and certain items would need to be moved further up the list if they were even going to have a hope of negotiating with these aliens.
Ironically, Ocean Reef homeowners had been negotiating with the developers to buy out the utilities, including the long-troubled sewage system.
She was relieved to see that the reivers were too busy trying to manage the ship to think of using him as a negotiating tool.
He added that I might hope great things from the mercy of the Inquisitors if I succeeded in negotiating the Armenian difficulty.
In the neighborhood of RV Trianguli, aboard Sem-pach, the scheduled briefing between the negotiating team and the top-level officers of the starships on site had been going on for half an hour or so.
I spent a week of hard negotiating to get you your official rankings and place in this.