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negotiating

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ne·go·ti·ate  (n-gsh-t)
v. ne·go·ti·at·ed, ne·go·ti·at·ing, ne·go·ti·ates
v.intr.
To confer with another or others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement: "It is difficult to negotiate where neither will trust" (Samuel Johnson).
v.tr.
1. To arrange or settle by discussion and mutual agreement: negotiate a contract.
2.
a. To transfer title to or ownership of (a promissory note, for example) to another party by delivery or by delivery and endorsement in return for value received.
b. To sell or discount (assets or securities, for example).
3.
a. To succeed in going over or coping with: negotiate a sharp curve.
b. To succeed in accomplishing or managing: negotiate a difficult musical passage.

[Latin negtir, negtit-, to transact business, from negtium, business : neg-, not; see ne in Indo-European roots + tium, leisure.]

ne·goti·ator n.
ne·gotia·tory (-sh-tôr, -tr, -sh--) adj.
Translations
negotiating [nɪˈgəʊʃɪeɪtɪŋ]
A. Nnegociación f
B. CPD [strategy] → negociador; [skills] → de negociación
negotiating table Nmesa f de negociaciones
to sit (down) at the negotiating tablesentarse a la mesa de negociaciones


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But what all England did not know De Vac had gleaned from scraps of conversation dropped in the armory: that Henry was even now negotiating with the leaders of foreign mercenaries, and with Louis IX of France, for a sufficient force of knights and menat-arms to wage a relentless war upon his own barons that he might effectively put a stop to all future interference by them with the royal prerogative of the Plantagenets to misrule England.
He waited for a moment of steadiness before negotiating the three steps of the inside ladder from rail to deck; and the watchman, taught by experience, would forbear offering help which would be received as an insult at that particular stage of the mate's return.
She had left Francis Westwick at Milan, occupied in negotiating for the appearance at his theatre of the new dancer at the Scala.
 
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