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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Negotiate

Ne-gō'ti-āte, v. i.

verbintransitive

(ne-gō'shī-āt, 95), v. i. [Lat. negotiari, negotiatus, from negotium, business, from nec, not, and otium, leisure; It. negoziare, Sp. negociar, Fr. négocier.]

  1. To transact business; to treat with another respecting purchase and sale; to hold intercourse in bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm.
  2. To hold intercourse with another 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 As God's ambassador. Cowper.

Ne-gō'ti-āte, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. NEGOTIATED; p. pr. & vb. n. NEGOTIATING.]

Sense 1. To procure by mutual intercourse and agreement with another; to arrange for; to settle by dealing and management.

Constantinople had negotiated in the isles of the Archipelago, the Morea, and Sicily, the most indispensable supplies. Gibbon.

Sense 2. To transfer for a valuable consideration; to sell; to pass.

The notes were not negotiated to them in the usual course of business or trade. Kent.