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Webster 1913 Edition


Negotiation

Ne-goˊti-a′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
negotiatio
: cf. F.
négociation
.]
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Negotiation

NEGOTIATION

,
Noun.
1.
The act of negotiating; the transacting of business in traffick; the treating with another respecting sale or purchase.
2.
The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by their agents, in making treaties and the like; as the negotiations at Ghent.

Definition 2024


negotiation

negotiation

English

Alternative forms

Noun

negotiation (plural negotiations)

  1. The process of achieving agreement through discussion.

Hyponyms

  • content negotiation (Web)

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External links

  • negotiation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • negotiation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • negotiation in The Negotiation Experts, 1996