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The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.

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  1. n. The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.
  2. n. Hence, mercantile business; trading.
  3. n. The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, composing difference, etc.; as, the negotiations at Ghent.
  4. n. a discussion intended to produce an agreement
  5. n. the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms
  6. 1. The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc. 2. Hence, mercantile business; trading. [Obs.] Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies. Evelyn. 3. The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, composing difference, etc.; as, the negotiations at Ghent. An important negotiation with foreign powers. Macaulay.
  7. n:100 n. a discussion intended to produce an agreement n. the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms