'Negotiation' definitions:
Definition of 'negotiation'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Negotiation'
From: GCIDE
- Negotiation \Ne*go`ti*a"tion\, n. [L. negotiatio: cf. F. n['e]gociation.]
- 1. The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, mercantile business; trading. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- An important negotiation with foreign powers. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'negotiation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- audience,
- bargaining,
- bargaining session,
- business deal,
- chaffer,
- chaffering,
- collective bargaining,
- coming to terms,
- commercial transaction,
- conclave,
- confab,
- confabulation,
- conference,
- confrontation,
- congress,
- consultation,
- convention,
- council,
- council fire,
- council of war,
- deal,
- dickering,
- discussion,
- exchange of views,
- eyeball-to-eyeball encounter,
- haggle,
- haggling,
- higgling,
- high-level talk,
- huddle,
- interchange of views,
- interview,
- meeting,
- negotiations,
- news conference,
- operation,
- package bargaining,
- package deal,
- palaver,
- parley,
- pattern bargaining,
- pourparler,
- powwow,
- press conference,
- seance,
- session,
- sitting,
- summit,
- summit conference,
- summitry,
- transaction,
- turn