NEGOTIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does negotiation mean? 

• NEGOTIATION (noun)
  The noun NEGOTIATION has 2 senses:

1. a discussion intended to produce an agreement

2. the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms

  Familiarity information: NEGOTIATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEGOTIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A discussion intended to produce an agreement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

dialogue; negotiation; talks

Context example:

talks between Israelis and Palestinians

Hypernyms ("negotiation" is a kind of...):

discussion; give-and-take; word (an exchange of views on some topic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "negotiation"):

parley (a negotiation between enemies)

diplomacy; diplomatic negotiations (negotiation between nations)

bargaining (the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement)

collective bargaining (negotiation between an employer and trade union)

horse trading (negotiation accompanied by mutual concessions and shrewd bargaining)

mediation (a negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party)

Derivation:

negotiate (discuss the terms of an arrangement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("negotiation" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

 Context examples 

The end of the negotiation was, that she bought the property on tolerably easy terms, and Traddles was transported with pleasure.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Expect an unusual twist to your negotiations.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Examples include responses to information requests, additional draft labeling during negotiations, etc.

(Amendment Regulatory Submission, Food and Drug Administration)

Thornton Lacey was the name of his impending living, as Miss Crawford well knew; and her interest in a negotiation for William Price's knave increased.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

We should not have troubled you, only that our friend who speaks Greek and who began these negotiations has been forced to return to the East.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While not naming any other bidders, Maróth said the Hungarian bid won after lengthy negotiations, out of mulitple competing offers.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

Louisa could not listen at all to his account of a conversation which he had just held with Dr Shirley: she was at a window, looking out for Captain Wentworth; and even Henrietta had at best only a divided attention to give, and seemed to have forgotten all the former doubt and solicitude of the negotiation.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She expressly conditioned, however, for paying no visits, and would do no more than accompany them to Gray's in Sackville Street, where Elinor was carrying on a negotiation for the exchange of a few old-fashioned jewels of her mother.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I am not a little pleased that this work of mine can possibly meet with no censurers: for what objections can be made against a writer, who relates only plain facts, that happened in such distant countries, where we have not the least interest, with respect either to trade or negotiations?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He said that he was wearing away his time fruitlessly where he was, that letters from the friends he had formed in London desired his return to complete the negotiation they had entered into for his Indian enterprise.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)