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To transact business; to carry on trade.

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  1. v. i. To transact business; to carry on trade.
  2. v. i. To treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm.
  3. v. i. To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or convention; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences.
  4. v. i. To intrigue; to scheme.
  5. v. t. To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange.
  6. v. t. To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass.
  7. v. discuss the terms of an arrangement
  8. v. succeed in passing through, around, or over
  9. 1. To transact business; to carry on trade. [Obs.] Hammond. 2. To treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm. 3. To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or convention; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences. He that negotiates between God and man Is God's ambassador. Cowper. 4. To intrigue; to scheme. [Obs.] Bacon. 1. To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange. Constantinople had negotiated in the isles of the Archipelago ... the most indispensable supplies. Gibbon. 2. To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass. The notes were not negotiated to them in the usual course of business or trade. Kent.
  10. v:100 v. succeed in passing through, around, or over