Ne-gō'ti-ā'tion, n.
(-shī-ā'shun), n. [Lat. negotiatio, Fr. négociation, Sp. negociacion, It. negoziazione.]
Sense 1. The act of negotiating; the transacting of business in traffic; the treating with another respecting sale or purchase.
Sense 2. Hence, mercantile business; trading.
Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies. Evelyn.
Sense 3. The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by their agents, in making treaties and the like; as, the negotiations at Ghent.
With the single exception of Sir William Temple . . . there was no Englishman who had proved himself capable of conducting an important negotiation with foreign powers to a successful and honorable issue. Macaulay.