negotiate
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- negociate (archaic)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin negotiatus, past participle of negotiari (“to carry on business”), from negotium (“business”) (Eng. usg. 1599), from nec (“not”) + otium (“leisure, ease, inactivity”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/, /nɪˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/, /nɪˈɡəʊ.si.eɪt/
- (US) IPA(key): /nəˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/, /nɪˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/
Audio (US) (file) - (General Australian) IPA(key): /nɪˈɡəʉ.ʃi.æɪt/, (uncommon) /nɪˈɡəʉ.si.æɪt/
Audio (AU) (file)
Verb edit
negotiate (third-person singular simple present negotiates, present participle negotiating, simple past and past participle negotiated)
- (intransitive) To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.
- 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., to the eight fellow clergymen who opposed the civil rights action, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait
- "You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue."
- 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., to the eight fellow clergymen who opposed the civil rights action, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait
- (transitive) To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement.
- 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
- Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. […] The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
- We negotiated the contract to everyone's satisfaction.
- The client and server computers must first negotiate a network protocol to be used.
- (transitive) To succeed in coping with, or getting over something.
- 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 15 November 2016:
- Novak Djokovic earlier had negotiated his own tricky passage through the fifth day.
- We negotiated the mountain track with difficulty.
- Although the car was quite rickety, he could negotiate the curves very well.
- (transitive) To transfer to another person with all the rights of the original holder; to pass, as a bill.
- (obsolete) To transact business; to carry on trade.
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- (obsolete) To intrigue; to scheme.
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
- Certaine it is, shee was a busie negotiating woman.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
confer to reach an agreement (intransitive)
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arrange a mutual agreement (transitive)
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coping with, getting over
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Further reading edit
- “negotiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “negotiate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ne.ɡoː.tiˈaː.te/, [nɛɡoːt̪iˈäːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ne.ɡot.t͡siˈa.te/, [neɡot̪ː͡s̪iˈäːt̪e]
Participle edit
negōtiāte