negotiateverb
uk/nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/us/nəˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/negotiate verb (DISCUSS)
C1 [ I or T ] to have formal discussions with someone in order to reach an agreement with them:
The government has refused to negotiate with the strikers.
I'm negotiating for a new contract.
I've managed to negotiate (= get by discussion) a five percent pay increase with my boss.
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- Despite the deep antipathies between them, the two sides have managed to negotiate an agreement.
- The government's official line has always been to refuse to negotiate with terrorists.
- The police negotiated with the gunman through an intermediary.
- We need someone who is practised at negotiating business deals.
- He spent ages negotiating for a pay increase, only to resign from his job soon after he'd received it.
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Debate & discussion
- arena
- compare
- conciliate
- dialectic
- float around
- fly
- fly around
- get down to business idiom
- kick sth around
- negotiable
- parley
- reason with sb
- reasoning
- sophistry
- speak
- talk sth out
- talk sth over
- thrash
- toss
- weigh in
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negotiate verb (MANAGE TO DO)
[ T ] to manage to travel along a difficult route:
The only way to negotiate the muddy hillside is on foot.
[ T ] to deal with something difficult:
The company's had some tricky problems to negotiate in its first year in business.
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Travelling
- backpacking
- bum around (somewhere)
- catch
- coach
- connect
- cover
- cruise
- destination
- gad about/around (somewhere)
- gallivant
- have sth, will travel idiom
- override
- ply
- road
- roam
- tootle
- tourist class
- travel
- travelled
- well travelled
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Dealing with things or people
negotiate verb (EXCHANGE)
[ T ] specialized finance & economics to get or give an amount of money in exchange for a financial document of the same value
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Negotiating prices
- bargain
- bargaining power
- barter
- beat
- beat sb down
- bid
- cap
- dicker
- drive
- drive a hard bargain idiom
- gazump
- gazunder
- haggle
- negotiable
- non-negotiable
- predatory pricing
- quotation
- quote
- settle
- settle on sth