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NEGOTIATE, v.i. [ L. An errand, business; to go on errands, to negotiate.]
NEGOTIATE, v.t.
To transact business; to
carry on trade.
[Obs.] Hammond. To treat with another respecting purchase
and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to
negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a
farm.
To hold intercourse respecting a treaty,
league, or convention; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce;
to conduct communications or conferences.
He that negotiates between God and man To intrigue; to scheme.
[Obs.]
Bacon. To carry on
negotiations concerning] to procure or arrange for by negotiation;
as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange.
Constantinople had negotiated in the isles of the Archipelago . . . the most indispensable supplies. Gibbon. To transfer for a valuable consideration
under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass.
The notes were not negotiated to them in the usual course of business or trade. Kent. | ||||||||