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negotiation |
2 definitions found 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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