Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to negotiation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to negotiation.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to negotiation.

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Examples

  • Churchill, now a member of the war cabinet, put a stop to these negotiatory feelers.

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • The problem with e-mail is that it is so non-negotiatory.

    Why e-mail is bad for business. 2006

  • The journey recalled old days — to how many such negotiatory meetings had he not gone or caused his adversaries to come!

    The Silver Spoon 2004

  • Having completed his negotiatory visit he was being speeded on his way by the native staff of the firm, who had hung him with garlands like a sacrificial bull.

    Roving East and Roving West 1903

  • In the course of Mr. Greeley's negotiatory business Mr. Lincoln had offered to welcome “any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery.”

    Abraham Lincoln Morse, John T 1899

  • When we left the lower darkness and ascended to the floor of ice once more, Mignot expressed a desire to see my attempt at a sketch of the glacière from that point, as he had been much struck during his negotiatory visit of the night before by the sketch of the entrance to the Glacière of S. Georges, chiefly because he had guessed what it was meant for.

    Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland 1881

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