'Negotiate' definitions:
Definition of 'negotiate'
(from WordNet)
verb
Discuss the terms of an arrangement; "They negotiated the sale of the house" [syn: negociate, negotiate, talk terms]
verb
Succeed in passing through, around, or over; "The hiker negociated the high mountain pass" [syn: negotiate, negociate]
Definition of 'Negotiate'
From: GCIDE
- Negotiate \Ne*go"ti*ate\, v. i. [L. negotiatus, p. p. of negotiari, fr. negotium business; nec not + otium leisure. Cf. Neglect.]
- 1. To transact business; to carry on trade. [Obs.] --Hammond. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, convention, or other proposed agreement; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences. [1913 Webster]
- He that negotiates between God and man Is God's ambassador. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To intrigue; to scheme. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Negotiate'
From: GCIDE
- Negotiate \Ne*go"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Negotiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Negotiating.]
- 1. To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange. [1913 Webster]
- Constantinople had negotiated in the isles of the Archipelago . . . the most indispensable supplies. --Gibbon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass. [1913 Webster]
- The notes were not negotiated to them in the usual course of business or trade. --Kent. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'negotiate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abalienate,
- act between,
- adjust,
- advise with,
- agree,
- alien,
- alienate,
- amortize,
- arbitrate,
- arrange,
- assign,
- bargain,
- barter,
- beat down,
- bequeath,
- bid,
- bid for,
- bounce,
- bound,
- buck,
- buckjump,
- call in,
- capriole,
- cede,
- chaffer,
- cheapen,
- clear,
- clear the hurdle,
- collogue,
- come along,
- come on,
- compare notes,
- compose,
- concert,
- confer,
- confer with,
- consign,
- consult,
- consult with,
- contract,
- contrive,
- convey,
- counsel,
- covenant,
- curvet,
- cut the mustard,
- deed,
- deed over,
- deliberate,
- deliver,
- demise,
- devolve upon,
- dicker,
- discuss,
- discuss with,
- drive a bargain,
- enfeoff,
- engineer,
- exchange,
- exchange observations,
- exchange views,
- get along,
- get by,
- get on,
- give,
- give title to,
- go between,
- go on,
- hack it,
- haggle,
- hand,
- hand down,
- hand on,
- hand over,
- have conversations,
- higgle,
- hippety-hop,
- hold conference,
- hop,
- huckster,
- hurdle,
- intercede,
- intermediate,
- interpose,
- intervene,
- jew down,
- judge,
- jump,
- jump over,
- leap,
- leap over,
- leapfrog,
- make it,
- make out,
- make over,
- make terms,
- make the grade,
- manage,
- manage somehow,
- mediate,
- meet halfway,
- moderate,
- muddle through,
- outbid,
- over,
- overjump,
- overleap,
- overskip,
- palaver,
- parley,
- pass,
- pass on,
- pass over,
- pounce,
- pounce on,
- pounce upon,
- powwow,
- put heads together,
- put over,
- put through,
- reason with,
- refer to,
- referee,
- represent,
- scrape along,
- sell,
- settle,
- settle on,
- sign away,
- sign over,
- sit down together,
- sit down with,
- ski jump,
- skip,
- spring,
- start,
- start aside,
- start up,
- steeplechase,
- step in,
- succeed in,
- surmount,
- surrender,
- swing,
- swing the deal,
- take counsel,
- take up with,
- talk over,
- trade,
- transact,
- transfer,
- transmit,
- treat with,
- turn over,
- umpire,
- underbid,
- updive,
- upleap,
- upspring,
- vault,
- worry along