Category:Negotiation

Ne*go`ti*a"tion, n. Etym: [l. negotiatio: cf. F. négociation.]

1. The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another Respecting sale or purchase. etc.

2. Hence, mercantile business; trading. [obs.] Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty Years' negotiation in the east indies. Evelyn.

3. The transaction of business between nations; the mutual Intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, Composing difference, etc.; as, the negotiations at ghent. An important negotiation with foreign powers. Macaulay.