negotiation

• negociation (obsolete)

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.

• (US) IPA^(key): /nɨˌɡowʃiˈejʃn̩/

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• Hyphenation: ne‧go‧ti‧a‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

negotiation (countable and uncountable, plural negotiations)

1. The process of achieving agreement through discussion.

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• negotiable
• negotiate
• negotiator

• arbitration

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