negotiate
To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.
Verb 4 meanings
To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.
To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement.
“We negotiated the contract to everyone's satisfaction.”
To succeed in coping with, getting over or navigate a hazard or obstacle.
“We negotiated the mountain track with difficulty.”
To transfer to another person with all the rights of the original holder; to pass, as a bill.
Etymology
c. 1598; borrowed from Latin negōtiātus, perfect active participle of negōtior (“to do business, trade”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from negotium (“business”) + -or, from nec (“not”) + otium (“leisure, ease, inactivity”).
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NEGOTIATE at a glance
NEGOTIATE has 9 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (N 1 + E 1 + G 2 + O 1 + T 1 + I 1 + A 1 + T 1 + E 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,138 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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