01 n. The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.
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The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.
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Hence, mercantile business; trading.[Obs.]“Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies.” — Evelyn.
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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.