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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

noun The act or process of negotiating.
noun The transfer of a negotiable instrument.

from The Century Dictionary.

noun Trading; mercantile business; trafficking.
noun Mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of a transaction or agreement, whether directly or by agents or intermediaries; the act or process of treating with another or others in regard to the settlement of some matter, or for the purchase or sale of a commodity, etc.: as, the negotiation of a treaty or a loan.
noun In com., the act or procedure by which a bill of exchange, etc., is made negotiable—that is, made capable, by acceptance and indorsement, of being passed from hand to hand in payment of indebtedness, or of being transferred to another for a consideration. See negotiable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

noun The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.
noun obsolete Hence, mercantile business; trading.
noun The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, composing difference, etc..

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noun The process of achieving agreement through discussion.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

noun the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms
noun a discussion intended to produce an agreement

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From French négociation, from Latin negotiatio ("the carrying on of business, a wholesale business"), from negotiari ("to carry on business"); see negotiate.

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Unfortunately Lyons also wrote, "I am authorized by Lord John Russell to confide the negotiation on this matter to you," thus after all implying that a real _negotiation_ with the South was being undertaken.

Great Britain and the American Civil War Ephraim Douglass Adams
If we are able to reframe the word negotiation as a "win/win conversation leading to agreement," and we lean into conflict as an opportunity meet and resolve our collective wants, needs and challenges, we can count on transforming and even transcending all that keeps us dithering in quicksand.

Forbes.com: News Lisa Gates 2011
If we are able to reframe the word negotiation as a "win/win conversation leading to agreement," and we lean into conflict as an opportunity meet and resolve our collective wants, needs and challenges, we can count on transforming and even transcending all that keeps us dithering in quicksand.

Forbes.com: News Lisa Gates 2011
The sessions have been classified as "direct talks" the word "negotiation" somehow indicates a compromise, a win-win, a leavening out.

Virginia M. Moncrieff: Obama's Winning Move: Negotiate with the Taliban Virginia M. Moncrieff 2011
I can scarcely believe that such a negotiation is actually on foot, and yet that I have not the slightest idea of the party!

Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor 1874
That piece of information so influenced our view that we eliminated the word "negotiation" from our signature course and renamed it

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The sessions have been classified as "direct talks" the word "negotiation" somehow indicates a compromise, a win-win, a leavening out.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Virginia M. Moncrieff 2011
Well that has been there all the time there is always what you call negotiation with the

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Because if you’re truly hands-off in negotiation, you might not know about the mistake until the negotiation is over and you’ve signed the contract.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2009 » December 2009
But Cantor talked tough on the longer-term negotiation involving the rest of 2011 funding, saying that House Republicans still stood behind their legislation that would cut $61 billion in federal agency funding, to return to 2008 spending levels.

Poll: Blame for possible government shutdown is divided 2011

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

from The Century Dictionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

from The Century Dictionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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