negotiation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: negotiation	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
negotiation n 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" Synonym(s): negotiation, dialogue, talks the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Negotiation \Nego`tia"tion\, n. [L. negotiatio: cf. F. n[82]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.