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