negotiation
nounUK /nɪˌɡəʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/ · CA, US /nɪˌɡoʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French négociation, or from Latin negotiatio (“the carrying on of business, a wholesale business”), from negotiari (“to carry on business”). By surface analysis, negotiate + -ion.
1
The process of achieving agreement through discussion.
- The specifics of the contract are still under negotiation.
- The two parties entered into negotiations about the merger.
- Derived terms
- negotiationship, negotiation table, nonnegotiation, prenegotiation, pronegotiation, renegotiation, subnegotiation
- Related terms
- negotiable, negotiate, negotiator, otiose, arbitration
- Hyponyms
- content negotiation