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negotiate |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Negotiate \Ne*go"ti*ate\, v. i. [L. negotiatus p. p. of negotiari fr negotium business; nec not + otium leisure. Cf {Neglect}.] 1. To transact business; to carry on trade [Obs.] --Hammond. 2. 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. 3. To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or convention; to treat with respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences. He that negotiates between God and man Is God's ambassador. --Cowper. 4. To intrigue; to scheme. [Obs.] --Bacon. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Negotiate \Ne*go"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Negotiated}; p. pr & vb n. {Negotiating}.] 1. 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. --Gibbon. 2. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: negotiate v : discuss the terms of an arrangement; "They negotiated the terms" [syn: {negociate}, {talk terms}]
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