Negotiation definition

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A conferring, discussing, or bargaining to reach agreement.
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The transfer of a negotiable instrument.
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A negotiating.
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The process of achieving agreement through discussion.
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Discussions between adverse parties, with the goal of resolving their differences.
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Negotiation is defined as a back-and-forth process in which two or more people with different interests must find a way to reconcile or compromise to come up with an agreement.

When you wish to buy an item from a seller and you suggest one price, the seller suggests another and you go back and forth on the issue several times, this is an example of a negotiation.

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The act or process of negotiating.

Successful negotiation of a contract; entered into labor negotiations.

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Singular:
negotiation
Plural:
negotiations

Origin of negotiation

  • From French négociation, from Latin negotiatio (“the carrying on of business, a wholesale business"), from negotiari (“to carry on business"); see negotiate.

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Negotiation Sentence Examples

  • After a month of negotiation the claims of Ireland were conceded.

  • I brought this, in case you needed a negotiation tool to use to protect yourself from him.

  • His authority, save in Saxony, was merely nominal; but by negotiation rather than by warfare he secured a recognition of his sovereignty from the Bavarians and the Swabians.

  • Hence arose a double negotiation between him and Eugenius IV.

  • He lost no time in choosing a coalition cabinet, and then personally took up the negotiation of peace.

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