Negotiant
(Ne*go"ti*ant) n. [L. negotians, prop. p. pr. of negotiari: cf. F. négociant.] A negotiator. [R.]
Sir W. Raleigh.
Negotiate
(Ne*go"ti*ate) v. i. [L. negotiatus, p. p. of negotiari, fr. negotium business; nec not + otium
leisure. Cf. Neglect.]
1. To transact business; to carry on trade. [Obs.] Hammond.
2. 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.
3. 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
Is God's ambassador.
Cowper. 4. To intrigue; to scheme. [Obs.] Bacon.
Negotiate
(Ne*go"ti*ate), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Negotiated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Negotiating ]
1. 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. 2. 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. Negotiation
(Ne*go`ti*a"tion) n. [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 Ghent.
An important negotiation with foreign powers.
Macaulay. Negotiator
(Ne*go"ti*a`tor) n. [L.: cf. F. négociateur.] One who negotiates; a person who treats with
others, either as principal or agent, in respect to purchase and sale, or public compacts.
Negotiatory
(Ne*go"ti*a*to*ry) a. Of or pertaining to negotiation.
Negotiatrix
(Ne*go`ti*a"trix) n. [L.] A woman who negotiates. Miss Edgeworth.
