negotiate

== English == === Alternative forms === negociate (archaic) === Etymology === c. 1598; borrowed from Latin negōtiātus, perfect active participle of negōtior (“to do business, trade”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from negotium (“business”) + -or, from nec (“not”) + otium (“leisure, ease, inactivity”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/, /nɪˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/, /nɪˈɡəʊ.si.eɪt/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /nəˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/, /nɪˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /nɪˈɡəʉ.ʃi.æɪt/, (uncommon) /nɪˈɡəʉ.si.æɪt/ === Verb === negotiate (third-person singular simple present negotiates, present participle negotiating, simple past and past participle negotiated) (intransitive) To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement. 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., to the eight fellow clergymen who opposed the civil rights action, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait "You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue." (transitive) To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement. (transitive) To succeed in coping with, getting over or navigate a hazard or obstacle. (transitive) To transfer to another person with all the rights of the original holder; to pass, as a bill. (obsolete) To transact business; to carry on trade. (obsolete) To intrigue; to scheme. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== otiose ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== “negotiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “negotiate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [nɛ.ɡoː.tiˈaː.tɛ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ne.ɡot.t͡siˈaː.te] === Participle === negōtiāte vocative masculine singular of negōtiātus