transcription, транскрипция: [ nɪgoʊʃieɪt ]
( negotiates, negotiating, negotiated)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If people negotiate with each other or negotiate an agreement, they talk about a problem or a situation such as a business arrangement in order to solve the problem or complete the arrangement.
It is not clear whether the president is willing to negotiate with the democrats...
When you have two adversaries negotiating, you need to be on neutral territory...
The local government and the army negotiated a truce...
Western governments have this week urged him to negotiate and avoid force...
The South African president has negotiated an end to white-minority rule...
His publishing house had just begun negotiating for her next books...
There were reports that three companies were negotiating to market the drug.
V-RECIP : V with n , pl-n V , pl-n V n , NON-RECIP : V , V n , V for n , V to-inf , also V n with n
2.
If you negotiate an area of land, a place, or an obstacle, you successfully travel across it or around it.
Frank Mariano negotiates the desert terrain in his battered pickup...
I negotiated my way out of the airport and joined the flow of cars.
= navigate
VERB : V n , V way prep / adv