Word Meanings - NEGOTIATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc. 2. Hence, mercantile business; trading. Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies.

Additional info about word: NEGOTIATION

1. The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc. 2. Hence, mercantile business; trading. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NEGOTIATION)

• Bargain
• Transaction
• negotiation
• business
• profit
• speculation
• higgling
• gain
• hawking
• chaffer
• haggling
• Dealing
• Intercourse
• communication
• trade
• traffic
• commerce
• practice
• Diplomacy
• Embassy
• ministry
• ambassadorship
• representation
• tact
• contrivance
• management
• outwitting
• circumvention
• Business
• affair
• occurrence
• performance
• proceeding
• action
• Treaty
• Contract
• agreement
• league
• covenant
• alliance
• convention

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of NEGOTIATION)

• Expand
• amplify
• dilate
• elongate
• reverse
• cancel
• abandon

Related words: (words related to NEGOTIATION)

• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• HAWKED
  Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• CONVENTIONALLY
  In a conventional manner.
• HAWKER
  One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
• TRAFFICLESS
  Destitute of traffic, or trade.
• HAGGLE
  To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• CONVENTIONAL
  1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• BARGAINER
  One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
• CONVENTIONALISM
  The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. (more info) 1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• TRAFFIC MILE
  Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period; -- a term and practice of restricted or erroneous usage. Traffic mile is a term designed to furnish an excuse
• PROFIT
  1. Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• HIGGLER
  One who higgles.
• TRADESFOLK
  People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
• PROCEED
  To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• REALLIANCE
  A renewed alliance.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• INTERCOMMUNICATION
  Mutual communication. Owen.
• MOHAWK
  One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River. 2. One of certain ruffians who infested the streets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.