negotiate.
To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.
Meaning & usage
To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.
To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement.
We negotiated the contract to everyone's satisfaction.
The client and server computers must first negotiate a network protocol to be used.
To succeed in coping with, getting over or navigate a hazard or obstacle.
We negotiated the mountain track with difficulty.
Although the car was quite rickety, he could negotiate the curves very well.
To transfer to another person with all the rights of the original holder; to pass, as a bill.
To transact business; to carry on trade.
To intrigue; to scheme.
Where this word comes from
c. 1598; borrowed from Latin negōtiātus, perfect active participle of negōtior (“to do business, trade”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from negotium (“business”) + -or, from nec (“not”) + otium (“leisure, ease, inactivity”).
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