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NEGOTIABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does negotiable mean?
• NEGOTIABLE (adjective)
The adjective NEGOTIABLE has 3 senses:
1. capable of being passed or negotiated
2. able to be negotiated or arranged by compromise
3. legally transferable to the ownership of another
Familiarity information: NEGOTIABLE used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of being passed or negotiated
Context example:
a negotiable road
Similar:
passable (able to be passed or traversed or crossed)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Able to be negotiated or arranged by compromise
Synonyms:
negotiable; on the table
Context example:
the proposal is still on the table
Similar:
flexible (capable of being changed)
Derivation:
negotiate (discuss the terms of an arrangement)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Legally transferable to the ownership of another
Synonyms:
assignable; conveyable; negotiable; transferable; transferrable
Context example:
negotiable bonds
Similar:
alienable (transferable to another owner)
Derivation:
negotiate (discuss the terms of an arrangement)
Context examples
I propose, said Mr. Micawber, Bills—a convenience to the mercantile world, for which, I believe, we are originally indebted to the Jews, who appear to me to have had a devilish deal too much to do with them ever since—because they are negotiable.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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