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What is the verb for negotiation?

What's the verb for negotiation? Here's the word you're looking for.

negotiate
  1. (intransitive) To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.
  2. (transitive) To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement.
  3. (transitive) To succeed in coping with, or getting over something.
  4. (obsolete) To transact business; to carry on trade.
  5. (obsolete) To intrigue; to scheme.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The court rules encourage both sides to negotiate and reach agreement wherever possible.”
      “The mediator listens to both sides and proposes solutions to help negotiate a settlement between the two parties.”
      “If you haggle over the price of a car, why shouldn't you negotiate for a better price from contractors?”
negotiates
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of negotiate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The concerto demands athletic power from the soloist as he negotiates trickily angular and motoric passages, particularly in the last movement.”
      “Petrina negotiates these difficult territories like a surefooted mountain goat.”
      “Why should members bother to belong to an organisation that negotiates such a dismal contract?”
negotiated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of negotiate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Economic policy is still laid down in laboriously negotiated five-year plans.”
      “If your workplace is unionised, it is generally negotiated with union representatives.”
      “I negotiated the railless stairs and dark corridor without too much injury to my person, and managed to fumble the wooden latch open.”
negotiating
  1. present participle of negotiate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Spend four days acclimatizing in Lhasa and continue across this amazing land. negotiating 17,000-foot passes through the ice-bound Himalayas.”
      “It's a negotiating process and I think we need to just reserve judgment on almost every aspect of it.”
      “In March, the western Indians began negotiating for peace while the Wampanoags and Narragansetts returned to their homelands in search of food.”
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