(~s, negotiating, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If people ~ with each other or ~ 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 ~ with the democrats...
When you have two adversaries negotiating, you need to be on neutral territory...
The local government and the army ~d a truce...
Western governments have this week urged him to ~ and avoid force...
The South African president has ~d 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 ~ an area of land, a place, or an obstacle, you successfully travel across it or around it.
Frank Mariano ~s the desert terrain in his battered pickup...
I ~d my way out of the airport and joined the flow of cars.
= navigate
VERB: V n, V way prep/adv