Negotiation

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. Hence, mercantile business; trading. [Obs.]
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              Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand
              pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East
              Indies.                               --Evelyn.
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     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.
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              An important negotiation with foreign powers.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  negotiation
       n 1: a discussion intended to produce an agreement; "the buyout
            negotiation lasted several days"; "they disagreed but
            kept an open dialogue"; "talks between Israelis and
            Palestinians" [syn: {dialogue}, {talks}]
       2: the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming
          to terms

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "negotiation":
     audience, bargaining, bargaining session, business deal, chaffer,
     chaffering, collective bargaining, coming to terms,
     commercial transaction, conclave, confab, confabulation,
     conference, confrontation, congress, consultation, convention,
     council, council fire, council of war, deal, dickering, discussion,
     exchange of views, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, haggle, haggling,
     higgling, high-level talk, huddle, interchange of views, interview,
     meeting, negotiations, news conference, operation,
     package bargaining, package deal, palaver, parley,
     pattern bargaining, pourparler, powwow, press conference, seance,
     session, sitting, summit, summit conference, summitry, transaction,
     turn
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  NEGOTIATION, merc. law. The act by which a bill of exchange or promissory 
  note is put into circulation by being passed by one of the original parties 
  to another person. 
       2. Until an accommodation bill or note has been negotiated, there is no 
  contract which can be enforced on the note: the contract, either express or 
  implied, that the party accommodated will indemnify the other, is, till 
  then, conditional. 2 Man. & Gr. 911.