negotiation

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  1. noun The act or process of negotiating: successful negotiation of a contract; entered into labor negotiations.

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  • These manifestations of popular disaffection alarmed the ministers, and a new council was held, at which it was determined that before proceeding to the ultima ratio regum a negotiation should be attempted with the emancipated Princess; and for this purpose the Comte de Bethune and the Abbe Berulle[27] were despatched to Marie de Medicis with full powers to conclude a treaty between herself and the King. —  The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 3
  • When I told the printers that the negotiation was at an end unless they acceded to my proposition, it produced much agitation ; and yesterday they called to inform me that they had taken the opinion of good counsel on the subject; that their determination was not to publish, but to hold you liable for the expenses. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
  • & CEO Shenzhen Summit 2009 that the negotiation between Apple and China Unicom for the introduction of iPhone into China is still ongoing and the result of the negotiation is also an open question. —  ChinaTechNews.com
  • Further negotiation was attempted to allow us water and toilet facilities, but the request was refused. —  Another Green World
  • Clinton blames Arafat for the failure here (and Arafat not only made no counter-offer, but his only "contribution" to the negotiation was his denial of the existence of the Second (Jewish) Temple, the one destroyed by Rome in 70 A.D.). —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
 

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  1. Formerly also negociation; from French négociation = Spanish negociacion = Portuguese negociação = Italian negoziazione, from Latin negotiatio (n-), the carrying on of business, a wholesale business, from negotiari, carry on business: see negotiate.
 

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/nəgoʊʃɪˈeɪʃən/
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