Borrowed from Middle French négociation, or from Latin negotiatio (“the carrying on of business, a wholesale business”), from negotiari (“to carry on business”); see negotiate.
negotiation (countable and uncountable, plural negotiations)
- The process of achieving agreement through discussion.
The specifics of the contract are still under negotiation.
The two parties entered into negotiations about the merger.
process of achieving agreement
- Albanian: negocim m
- Arabic: مُفَاوَضَات f pl (mufāwaḍāt), مُذَاكَرَات f pl (muḏākarāt)
- Armenian: բանակցություն (hy) (banakcʻutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: danışıq (az), danışıqlar pl
- Belarusian: перагаво́ры m pl (pjerahavóry), перамо́вы f pl (pjeramóvy)
- Bulgarian: пре́говори (bg) m pl (prégovori)
- Burmese: စေ့စပ်ရေး (my) (ce.cap-re:)
- Catalan: negociació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 談判／谈判 (zh) (tánpàn), 交涉 (zh) (jiāoshè)
- Czech: vyjednávání n, negociace f
- Danish: forhandling (da) c
- Dutch: onderhandeling (nl) f
- Estonian: läbirääkimine, läbirääkimised pl
- Finnish: neuvottelu (fi)
- French: négociation (fr) f
- Galician: negociación (gl) f
- Georgian: მოლაპარაკება (molaṗaraḳeba)
- German: Verhandlung (de) f
- Greek: παζάρεμα (el) f (pazárema)
- Hebrew: מַשָּׂא וּמַתָּן (he) m (masá umatán)
- Hindi: बातचीत (hi) f (bātcīt), परक्रामण m (parakrāmaṇ)
- Hungarian: tárgyalás (hu), egyeztetés (hu), egyezkedés (hu), megbeszélés (hu)
- Icelandic: viðræður f pl
- Indonesian: negosiasi (id)
- Italian: negoziato (it) m, negoziazione (it) f
- Japanese: 交渉 (ja) (こうしょう, kōshō)
- Kazakh: келіссөз (kelıssöz), келіссөздер pl (kelıssözder)
- Khmer: ការចរចា (km) (kaacɑɑcaa)
- Korean: 교섭(交涉) (ko) (gyoseop), 협상(協商) (ko) (hyeopsang)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: mizakere (ku) f, danûstandin (ku) f, guftûgo (ku) f, gotûbêj (ku) f, nîqaş (ku) f, dêwan (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: сүйлөшүүлөр (ky) pl (süylöşüülör)
- Lao: ການເຈລະຈາ (kān chē la chā)
- Latvian: sarunas f pl
- Lithuanian: derybos f pl
- Macedonian: преговори m pl (pregovori)
- Malay: rundingan
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forhandling m or f
- Occitan: negociacion (oc) f
- Pashto: مذاکره f (mozākera)
- Persian: مذاکره (fa) (mozâkere)
- Polish: negocjacja f, negocjacje (pl) f pl
- Portuguese: negociação (pt) f
- Romanian: negociere (ro) f
- Russian: перегово́ры (ru) m pl (peregovóry)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пре̏гово̄р m, пре̏гово̄ри m pl
- Roman: prȅgovōr m, prȅgovōri (sh) m pl
- Slovak: vyjednávanie n, rokovanie n
- Slovene: pregovor (sl) m, pogajanja n pl
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: jadnanje n
- Spanish: negociación (es) f
- Swedish: förhandling (sv) c, underhandling (sv) c
- Tajik: музокира (muzokira), музокирот pl (muzokirot)
- Telugu: బేరం (te) (bēraṁ)
- Thai: การต่อรอง (th) (gaan-dtɔ̀ɔ-rɔɔng)
- Turkish: müzakere (tr)
- Ukrainian: перегово́ри m pl (perehovóry), перемо́ви f pl (peremóvy), перемо́вини f pl (peremóvyny)
- Urdu: مذاکرہ m (muzākarā)
- Uyghur: سۆھبەت (söhbet)
- Uzbek: muzokara (uz), muzokaralar pl
- Vietnamese: sự đàm phán (vi)
- Welsh: trafodaeth (cy) f
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- “negotiation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “negotiation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- negotiation in The Negotiation Experts, 1996
