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  • noun Plural form of negotiant.

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Examples

  • Early each summer, they exchange futures contracts with middlemen known as negotiants, who then sell the wine contracts to collectors, investors and fine-wine retailers.

    New Whine: China Pushes Bordeaux Prices Higher 2010

  • Guillaume d'Angerville's grandfather Sem, infuriated by this practice of mixing in other wines with his own, sued some of the large Beaune negotiants, who thereafter boycotted his grapes.

    The Childhood Chums Keeping Volnay a Delight Jay McInerney 2011

  • Several famous Chateuneuf-du-Pape wineries, such as Ch. de Beucastel and Mont Olivet, aren't negotiants per se, but they also make Côtes du Rhône wines.

    Cotes du Rhone Wine Shopping Tips 2010

  • Even though the precise terms of ACTA remain undecided, the negotiants' preliminary documents reveal many troubling aspects of the proposed agreement.

    Archive 2008-05-11 2008

  • Even though the precise terms of ACTA remain undecided, the negotiants' preliminary documents reveal many troubling aspects of the proposed agreement.

    B2fxxx 2008

  • Henri Tavel hugged me with moist eyes and told me he could place me with de Luze or one of the other top negotiants if I would stay: and sometimes since then I'd wondered why I hadn't.

    PROOF Francis, Dick 1984

  • A purchase, however, establishes a kind of brotherhood between the two negotiants, who afterward call each other "naragua," and a confidence is established between them almost of the same character as that which exists between compadres among the Mexicans.

    Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Carl Lumholtz 1886

  • I'm particularly impressed by the work that some negotiants are doing.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • 2008 Domaine Bouchard Père et Fils Volnay Clos des Chênes Premier Cru, $49 Boyle + Gardner for The Wall Street Journal Bouchard is one of the top negotiants and has been on a roll for the last decade.

    The Childhood Chums Keeping Volnay a Delight Jay McInerney 2011

  • I’ve recently heard through a grapevine that ACTA negotiants have reportedly signed non-disclosure agreements as a condition of their participation in this week’s secret closed-door meeting in Geneva.

    ACTA's Unspeakable Acts glyn moody 2008

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