negotiation

• negociation (obsolete)

Borrowed from Middle French négociation, or from Latin negotiatio (“the carrying on of business, a wholesale business”), from negotiari (“to carry on business”); see negotiate.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nɪˌɡəʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, /nɪˌɡəʊ.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /nɪˌɡoʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, /nəˌɡoʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/

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• Hyphenation: ne‧go‧ti‧a‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

negotiation (countable and uncountable, plural negotiations)

1. The process of achieving agreement through discussion.

   The specifics of the contract are still under negotiation.

   The two parties entered into negotiations about the merger.

• content negotiation (Web)

• negotiation table

• “negotiation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “negotiation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• negotiation in The Negotiation Experts, 1996