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Webster 1913 Edition
Negotiation
Ne-goˊti-a′tion
,Noun.
[L.
negotiatio
: cf. F. négociation
.] 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 GhentAn important
negotiation
with foreign powers. Macaulay.
Webster 1828 Edition
Negotiation
NEGOTIATION
,Noun.
1.
The act of negotiating; the transacting of business in traffick; the treating with another respecting sale or purchase.2.
The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by their agents, in making treaties and the like; as the negotiations at Ghent.