negotiation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a discussion intended to produce an agreement
    talks; dialogue.
    • the buyout negotiation lasted several days
    • they disagreed but kept an open dialogue
    • talks between Israelis and Palestinians
  2. noun the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms

WordNet

Ne*go`ti*a"tion noun
Etymology
L. negotiatio: cf. F. négociation.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913