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Negotiation \Ne*go`ti*a"tion\, n. [L. negotiatio: cf. F.
n['e]gociation.]
1. The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another
respecting sale or purchase. etc.
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2. Hence, mercantile business; trading. [Obs.]
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Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand
pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East
Indies. --Evelyn.
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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.
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An important negotiation with foreign powers.
--Macaulay.
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