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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Negotiation \Ne*go'ti*a"tion\, noun [L. negotiatio: cf. F. n['e]gociation.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
negotiation
noun
1: a discussion intended to produce an agreement; "the buyout negotiation lasted several days"; "they disagreed but kept an open dialogue"; "talks between Israelis and Palestinians" [syn: {dialogue}, {talks}]
2: the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "negotiation": 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
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