Negotiate

Definition: Negotiate

Negotiate

Verb

1. Discuss the terms of an arrangement; "They negotiated the terms".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "negotiate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Synonyms: Negotiate

Barter

Bargain; drive a bargain, make a bargain; negotiate, bid for; haggle, higgle; dicker; chaffer, huckster, cheapen, beat down; stickle, stickle for; out bid, under bid; ask, charge; strike a bargain; (contract).

Compact

Treat, negotiate, stipulate, make terms; bargain; (barter).

Mediation

Verb: mediate, mediatize; intercede, interpose, interfere, intervene; step in, negotiate; meet halfway; arbitrate; magnas componere lites.

Transfer

Verb: transfer, convey; alienate, alien; assign; grant; (confer); consign; make over, hand over; pass, hand, transmit, negotiate; hand down; exchange;(interchange).

Crosswords: Negotiate

We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe)

Pull it the hell over! Let's see, you can't negotiate traffic, you can't signal properly, you can't parallel park. (Gone in Sixty Seconds; writing credit: Scott Rosenberg)

Hey, babe, I negotiate million-dollar deals for breakfast. (Die Hard; writing credit: Steven E. de Souza, Jeb Stuart)

I cannot negotiate in an atmosphere of mistrust. (Wait Until Dark; writing credit: Frederick Knott; Robert Howard-Carrington)

Absolutely not! There are other things that we can do. We can negotiate with the Tavloids, we can .. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Getting Together: Building Relationships As We Negotiate (reference)

• How to Negotiate Real Estate Contracts: For Buyers and Sellers: With Forms (How to Negotiate Real Estate Contracts) (reference)

• In Business As in Life, You Don't Get What You Deserve, You Get What You Negotiate (reference)

• Negotiate to Close: How to Make More Successful Deals (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Negotiate Like the Pros (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The Principal Allied and Associated Powers undertake to negotiate a Treaty between the Polish Government and the Free City of Danzig, which shall come into force at the same time as the establishment of the said Free City, with the following objects: (1) To effect the inclusion of the Free City of Danzig within the Polish Customs frontiers, and to establish a free area in the port; (2) To ensure to Poland without any restriction the free use and service of all waterways, docks, basins, wharves and other works within the territory of the Free City necessary for Polish imports and exports; (3) To ensure to Poland the control and administration of the Vistula and of the whole railway system within the Free City, except such street and other railways as serve primarily the needs of the Free City, and of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communication between Poland and the port of Danzig; (4) To ensure to Poland the right to develop and improve the waterways, docks, basins, wharves, railways and other works and means of communication mentioned in this Article, as well as to lease or purchase through appropriate processes such land and other property as may be necessary for these purposes, (5) To provide against any discrimination within the Free City of Danzig to the detriment of citizens of Poland and other persons of Polish origin or speech; (6) To provide that the Polish Government shall undertake the conduct of the foreign relations of the Free City of Danzig as well as the diplomatic protection of citizens of that city when abroad. (reference)

Let us never negotiate out of fear. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

These programs include (1) information about HIV/AIDS and (2) building skills to use condoms and to negotiate the interpersonal challenges of safer sex. Effective safer sex programs have been developed for men who have sex with men, for women, and for adolescents. (references)

Some older rats (about 2 years old) take longer to negotiate a maze or cannot seem to make memories of the correct turns at all. In a study in the mid-1980's, scientists took several rats with such memory impairment and gave them nerve growth factor or NGF. The rats' ability to negotiate the maze improved, coming close to the ability seen in older rats with no impairment. (references)

Business

Hospitals in one region tend to form purchasing alliances to negotiate better pricing. (references)

SPTC may negotiate loan agreements pending final authorization by the minister of finance. (references)

Dental service providers may use the service to benefit from bulk discounts that DHSV can negotiate. (references)

Civil Liberties

Armenia

However, citizens must negotiate with a corrupt and inefficient bureaucracy to register these changes. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

Several of these organizations seek to negotiate with the Government in an attempt to formalize their status. (references)

Congo

In July opposition leader Francois Lumumba was permitted to travel to Butembo to negotiate the release of Thai citizens who were held hostage by a Mai Mai group. (references)

Economic History

Trinidad

Businesses can sometimes negotiate slightly lower rates. (references)

India

The Board has the flexibility to negotiate with investors. (references)

Guatemala

Efrain Rios Montt to negotiate the departure of Lucas and Guevara. (references)

Human Rights

Yemen

The detention may continue while the concerned families negotiate compensation for the alleged wrongdoing. (references)

Chile

On June 15, the Supreme Court upheld the ruling of a lower court not to reopen the case of Carmelo Soria, a Spanish citizen working for the U.N. and killed in Santiago in 1976. Soria's family continued to negotiate compensation with the Government. (references)

Belize

The appearance of judicial independence from the executive branch is compromised because some foreign judges and the Director of Public Prosecutions must negotiate renewal of their contracts with the Government and thus may be vulnerable to political interference. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

Aboriginal leaders were pleased by the removal of the time limit for lodging native title claims but expressed deep concern about the weakening of Aboriginal rights to negotiate with non-Aboriginal leaseholders over the development of rural property. (references)

Political Economy

Burundi

Efforts to negotiate a cease-fire were ongoing at year's end. (references)

BELGIUM

Public sector workers also negotiate collective bargaining agreements. (references)

Political Rights

South Africa

Although some chiefs advocated a boycott of the 2000 elections, most decided to participate based on an agreement with the Government to negotiate compromise legislation. (references)

Canada

The Supreme Court ruled in 1998 that a unilateral declaration of independence would be illegal, but that the Federal Government and other provinces would be obligated to negotiate Quebec's separation if a clear majority of Quebeckers voted to change their relationship with Canada on the basis of a clearly phrased referendum question. (references)

Trade

Saudi Arabia

Recently, Arab League states have agreed to negotiate an Arab Free Trade Zone. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Be sure to negotiate the fare before you embark. (references)

Philippines

Only after establishing the proper atmosphere will people negotiate. (references)

Colombia

When making cash payments, it is sometimes possible to negotiate a discount at some stores. (references)

Women

Australia

Other commentators have suggested that an "old boy's network" can make it difficult for women to negotiate salaries equal to those of their male counterparts. (references)

Worker Rights

Bahamas

Unions and employers negotiate wage rates without government interference. (references)

Cambodia

None of the unions has the capacity to negotiate with management as equals. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "negotiate": negotiate a river ♦ negotiate an obstacle ♦ negotiate for ♦ to negotiate. Additional references.

Ending with "negotiate": re-negotiate.

Albanian

zhvilloj bisedime (parley), shes (bargain away, barter away, betray, dispose of, flog, handle, market, realize, sell, vend), merrem vesh (accord, reserve, strike a bargain, swap, swop), kaloj (alternate, beguile, come by, come round, cross, cut, devolve, elapse, exceed, float, get by, glide, go, go by, go off, go past, outbalance, overstep, pass, passage, ram, run, run in, rush by, skip, slip by, slip past, span, spend, strain, take across, track, transcend, transgress, turn, undergo, witness), diskutoj (assess, canvass, confer, consult, counsel, debate, deliberate, discuss, dispute, expostulate, moot, quarrel, reason, talk over, think over, thrash out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاوض (treat), ‏نجز (accomplish, achieve, be executed, compass, complete, do, encompass, execute, finalize, finish, fulfil, fulfill, gain, get hold of, get on, implement, perfect, perform, polish off, pull off, put across, realize), ‏تفاوض (negotiation, parley), ‏تغلب (beat, conquer, cope, crumple, get over, get past, get the better of, knock down, master, outdo, overbear, overcome, predomination, pull through, quench, ride, vanquish, whack, worst), ‏تداول (circulation, confer, conference, counsel, currency, deliberate, deliberation), ‏عبر (across, act out, carry, clothe, come, come across, conceive, couch, cross, emit, enunciate, express, express oneself, fly, get through, give voice to, go over, jibe, jump, mouth, navigate, pass, phrase, run, signify, slice through, span, swim, track, trans, transit, ventilate, voice), ‏أتم (accomplish, achieve, cap, compass, consummate, fulfil, fulfill, perfect, realize, round off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уреждам (acquit, arrange, atone, compose, deal, dispose of, fix up, ground, organize, patch, patch up, pay, quit, regulate, set right, settle, sew up, tee up, work out, wrap, wrap up), уговарям (condition, contract, provide, set, settle, settle on, stipulate), споразумявам се (agree, arrange things, compound), разменям (barter, change, chop, exchange, pick up, swap, swop, trade, trade off, truck), обменям (barter, convert, exchange, interchange), преговарям (parley, recap, recapitulate, review, revise, transact, treat with), преодолявам (bear down, break through, fight, get over, hurdle, live down, master, overcome, overmaster, overpass, overpower, override, overrule, pass over, prevail, ride out, surmount, vanquish, win through), договарям се. (various references)

Chinese 

谈判 (negociate, Negotiated, Negotiating). (various references)

Czech

zdolat (conquer, cope, defeat, overbear, overpower, surmount, vanquish), vyjednávat (bargain, parley, treat), sjednat (appoint, arrange, close), prodat (dispose of, realize, sell), převést (bring forward, carry forward, switch, transfer). (various references)

Danish

handle (do business, trade). (various references)

Dutch

zaken doen (trade), handelen (act, do business, take action, trade). (various references)

Esperanto

negoci (trade). (various references)

Farsi 

مذاکره کردن (Converse, Parley), گفتگوکردن (Argue, Communicate, Discuss, Speak), طی کردن (Cover, Traverse). (various references)

Finnish

neuvotella (confer, consult, deal, deal with, discuss, handle, treat), välittää (act as an intermediary, arrange supply, care, connect, convey, mediate, mind, pay attention, provide, relay, transmit), hieroa sopimusta. (various references)

French

négocier (to negotiate), traverser, traiter, réaliser, franchir, accomplir. (various references)

German

verhandeln (argue, confer, deal with, discuss, discuss with, hear, judge, parley, trade, try), handeln (act, act in place of, action, bargain, bargaining, behave, behavior, behaviour, deal, do business, doing, haggle, haggling, sell, take action, to act, to act in place of, trade, trading, traffic in). (various references)

Greek 

διαπραγματεύομαι (negotiate with, parley, treat, treat with). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשאת משא ומתן, לשאת ולתת (bargain, parley), לסחור חליפין, לסחור (bargain, barter, deal, sell, trade, traffic). (various references)

Hungarian

tárgyal (heard, to broker, to confer, to confer with sy, to discuss, to hear, to negotiate, to palaver), megtárgyal (discuss, thrash out, to negotiate, to talk sg out), letárgyal (heard, to hear), leküzd (fight down, master, overcome, surmount, tide over, to fight back, to fight down, to fight off, to surmount, to surmount to sg, to tide over, to vanquish, vanquish), forgalomba hoz (circulate, issue, to circulate, to emit, to float, to issue, to negotiate, to put in circulation, to release), elintéz (to adjust, to arrange, to conclude, to despatch, to make up, to put to rights), elad (dispose of, give away, prostitute, sale, sell, to merchandise, to negotiate, to turn into money, to vend, vend). (various references)

Indonesian

merundingkan, berunding (consult). (various references)

Italian

negoziare (bargain, deal in, to negotiate, to sell, trade). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

話�'付ける (to arrange, to negotiate, to settle a matter), 掛け合う (to negotiate with, to talk over with), 掛け合わせる (to cross breed, to multiply, to negotiate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かけあう (to negotiate with, to talk over with), かけあわせる (to cross breed, to multiply, to negotiate), はなし�'つける (to arrange, to negotiate, to settle a matter). (various references)

Korean 

협상하십시�". (various references)

Luganda

wakakyama (you negotiate). (various references)

Manx

troailt (commute; voyaging, itinerate, journey, labour, travel, travelling, traverse, trek, trekking, voyage), dellal (commerce, deal, trade, traffic, transactions), barganey (bargain hunting, bargaining, contract, negotiation). (various references)

Papiamen

negoshá (trade). (various references)

Pig Latin

egotiatenay.(various references)

Portuguese

negociar (bargain, deal, Dicker, huckster, merchant, parley, sell, to negotiate, to sell, trading, transact, truck). (various references)

Romanian

negocia (bargain, trade, transact), trata negocierea, trata (argue, attend, back a bill, banquet, cover, deal, discourse, discuss, doctor, entertain, handle, nurse, physic, regale, serve, style, treat, use, work), pertracta (debate), duce tratative în vederea, duce tratative (parley), discuta (agitate, argue, confabulate, converse, debate upon, deliberate, discuss, dispute, go through, haggle, impugn, moot, powwow, question, reason, speak, talk, talk over). (various references)

Russian 

вести переговоры (conduct negotiations). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

voditi pregovore, ugovoriti (contract), sklopiti (assemble, close, contract, fold, make, put together), preneti (assign, broadcast, carry, carry forward, carry over, communicate, convey, relay, remise, translate), pregrovarati. (various references)

Spanish

negociar (bargain, deal, to negotiate, to sell, treat). (various references)

Swedish

underhandla (discuss, parley), förhandla (bargain, discuss, parley), ackordera (bargain). (various references)

Thai

เจรจาต่อรอง. (various references)

Turkish

tartışmak (altercate, argue, bat around, Bicker, brawl, bust, canvass, challenge, contend, controvert, debate, discuss, dispute, have a row with, have a set-to, have words with smb., jangle, join issue with smb., moot, set to, spar, take issue with smb., wrangle), paraya çevirmek (cash, cash a check, cash a cheque, encash, realize, turn into cash), kırdırmak (discount, rediscount), geçmek (abate, adjourn, be current, be over, be transmitted, be valid, beat, best, better, cap, catch, change to, clear, come down, cross, cut across, devolve, distance, elapse, exceed, Excel, expire, fit in, get through, go, go by, go down, go out, have outgrown smb., interlace, intervene, lapse, leave behind, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outgrow, outpace, outrange, outrival, outrun, outstrip, pass, pass away, pass beyond, pass by, pass into, pass off, pass on, pass over, pass up, permeate, ride, rub on, run, run out, subside, surpass, top, tower above, track, transmigrate, turn, wear off), görüşmek (approach, argue, canvass, confer, consult, contact, discuss, get into touch, have a talk with, interview, keep in touch, meet, parley, powwow, reason, see, talk), ciro etmek (back, endorse, indorse, indorse a bill), başarmak (accomplish, achieve, arrive, bring home the bacon, bring off, carry out, carry through, click, come through, compass, conquer, contrive, get things done, get through, hit the mark, make out, overcome, pan out, pan out well, prosper, pull off, sew up, succeed, swing, tackle, win through), aşmak (be in excess of, bestride, clear, defeat, exceed, go beyond, outgo, outreach, overbrim, overlap, overrun, overstep, pass, pass beyond, pass over, stride, surmount, surpass, top, transcend, transgress). (various references)

Turkmen 

wadalaюmak (make a pact). (various references)

Ukranian 

укласти контракт, укласти договір, реалізувати (actualize, realize), вести справу, вести переговори (bargain, capitulate, parley), обговорювати умови, пускати в обіг векселі, продавати (market, realize, sell, vend), продиратися крізь щось, переуступати векселі, переборювати перешкоди, перебиратися крізь щось, передавати векселі, домовлятися (agree, agree on, agree upon, appoint, arrange, bargain, bespeak, book, capitulate, close, concert, settle). (various references)

pacti, pacto, pactum, pactus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "negotiate": negotiated, negotiates. (additional references)

Words ending with "negotiate": renegotiate. (additional references)

Words containing "negotiate": renegotiated, renegotiates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Negotiate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nagotiate, negiotate, negociants, negociate, negotia, negotiat, nicotinate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: tentage.

-3 letters: eating, gitano, goatee, gotten, ingate, negate, notate, teeing, teniae, tentie, toeing, togate, toting.

-4 letters: agene, agent, agone, atone, eaten, enate, entia, genet, genie, genoa, giant, gonia, ingot, oaten, taint, tango, tanto, tenet, tenge, tenia, tigon, tinea, tinge, titan, togae, tonga.

-5 letters: aeon, agee, agin, agio, agon, ante, anti, etna, gaen, gain, gait, gane, gate, gene, gent, geta, gien, gnat, goat, gone, into, iota, naoi, neat, nett, nite, nota, note, ogee, tain, tang, tate, teat, teen, tent, tine, ting, tint, toea, toga, toit, tone, tong, tote.

+1 letter: negotiated, negotiates, vegetation.

+2 letters: interrogate, renegotiate, teetotaling, teratogenic, vegetations, witenagemot.

+3 letters: antiestrogen, interrogated, interrogatee, interrogates, overtreating, pathogenetic, renegotiated, renegotiates, revegetation, segmentation, teetotalling, theatergoing, vegetational, witenagemote, witenagemots.

+4 letters: antiestrogens, cytogenetical, deteriorating, deuteragonist, expectorating, interrogatees, interrogative, magnetometric, nonintegrated, photonegative, regimentation, reintegration, renegotiating, renegotiation, reorientating, revegetations, segmentations, teratogenesis, theatergoings, witenagemotes.

+5 letters: antigovernment, delegitimation, depigmentation, deuteragonists, electroplating, geometrization, interrogatives, magnetometries, nonthreatening, overestimating, paleomagnetist, redintegration, regimentations, reintegrations, renegotiations, reregistration, segregationist, seronegativity, teratogenicity, tergiversation, thermomagnetic.

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