Negotiate

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: ne=go=ti=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

Negotiate, v. i. [L. negotiatus, p. p. of negotiari, fr. negotium business; nec not + otium leisure. Cf. Neglect.].

•  To transact business; to carry on trade.  Hammond.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, convention, or other proposed agreement; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences.  [1913 Webster]

  "He that negotiates between God and man
  Is God's ambassador."  [1913 Webster]
•  To intrigue; to scheme.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

Negotiate, v. t. 

•  To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange.  [1913 Webster]

  "Constantinople had negotiated in the isles of the Archipelago . . . the most indispensable supplies."  [1913 Webster]
•  To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass.  [1913 Webster]

  "The notes were not negotiated to them in the usual course of business or trade."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Negotiate, v.
1 intr. (usu. foll. by with) confer with others in order to reach a compromise or agreement.
2 tr. arrange (an affair) or bring about (a result) by negotiating (negotiated a settlement).
3 tr. find a way over, through, etc. (an obstacle, difficulty, fence, etc.).
4 tr. a transfer (a cheque etc.) to another for a consideration. b convert (a cheque etc.) into cash or notes. c get or give value for (a cheque etc.) in money.

Derivative

negotiant n. negotiation n. negotiator n.

Etymology

L negotiari f. negotium business f. neg- not + otium leisure

THESAURUS

Negotiate

abalienate, act between, adjust, advise with, agree, alien, alienate, amortize, arbitrate, arrange, assign, bargain, barter, beat down, bequeath, bid, bid for, bounce, bound, buck, buckjump, call in, capriole, cede, chaffer, cheapen, clear, clear the hurdle, collogue, come along, come on, compare notes, compose, concert, confer, confer with, consign, consult, consult with, contract, contrive, convey, counsel, covenant, curvet, cut the mustard, deed, deed over, deliberate, deliver, demise, devolve upon, dicker, discuss, discuss with, drive a bargain, enfeoff, engineer, exchange, exchange observations, exchange views, get along, get by, get on, give, give title to, go between, go on, hack it, haggle, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, have conversations, higgle, hippety-hop, hold conference, hop, huckster, hurdle, intercede, intermediate, interpose, intervene, jew down, judge, jump, jump over, leap, leap over, leapfrog, make it, make out, make over, make terms, make the grade, manage, manage somehow, mediate, meet halfway, moderate, muddle through, outbid, over, overjump, overleap, overskip, palaver, parley, pass, pass on, pass over, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, powwow, put heads together, put over, put through, reason with, refer to, referee, represent, scrape along, sell, settle, settle on, sign away, sign over, sit down together, sit down with, ski jump, skip, spring, start, start aside, start up, steeplechase, step in, succeed in, surmount, surrender, swing, swing the deal, take counsel, take up with, talk over, trade, transact, transfer, transmit, treat with, turn over, umpire, underbid, updive, upleap, upspring, vault, worry along

ROGET THESAURUS

Negotiate

Mediation

VB mediate, mediatize, intercede, interpose, interfere, intervene, step in, negotiate, meet halfway, arbitrate, magnas componere lites, bargain.

Compact

VB contract, covenant, agree for, engage, treat, negotiate, stipulate, make terms, bargain, make a bargain, strike a bargain, come to terms, come to an understanding, compromise, set at rest, close, close with, conclude, complete, settle, confirm, ratify, clench, subscribe, underwrite, endorse, indorse, put the seal to, sign, seal, indent, take one at one's word, bargain by inch of candle.

Transfer

VB transfer, convey, alienate, alien, assign, grant, consign, make over, hand over, pass, hand, transmit, negotiate, hand down, exchange, change hands, change hands from one to another, devolve, succeed, come into possession, abalienate, disinherit, dispossess, substitute.

Barter

VB barter, exchange, swap, swop, truck, scorse, interchange, commutate, compound for, trade, traffic, buy and sell, give and take, nundinate, carry on a trade, ply a trade, drive a trade, be in business, be in the city, keep a shop, deal in, employ one's capital in, trade with, deal with, have dealings with, transact business with, do business with, open an account with, keep an account with, bargain, drive a bargain, make a bargain, negotiate, bid for, haggle, higgle, dicker, chaffer, huckster, cheapen, beat down, stickle, stickle for, out bid, under bid, ask, charge, strike a bargain, speculate, give a sprat to catch a herring, buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market, buy low and sell high, corner the market, rig the market, stag the market.