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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Negotiation \Ne*go`ti*a"tion\, n. [L. negotiatio: cf F.
n['e]gociation.]
1. The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another
respecting sale or purchase. etc
2. Hence mercantile business; trading. [Obs.]
Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand
pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East
Indies. --Evelyn.
3. The transaction of business between nations; the mutual
intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making
treaties, composing difference, etc.; as the negotiations
at Ghent.
An important negotiation with foreign powers.
--Macaulay.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
negotiation
n : a discussion intended to produce an agreement; "the buyout
negotiation lasted several days" [syn: {talks}]
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