Negotiation

n.	1.	The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.
	2.	Hence, mercantile business; trading. 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.

Noun	1.	negotiation - a discussion intended to produce an agreement; "the buyout negotiation lasted several days"; "they disagreed but kept an open dialogue"; "talks between Israelis and Palestinians" Synonyms: talks, dialogue
	2.	negotiation - the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms

NEGOTIATION, contracts The deliberation which takes place between the parties touching a proposed agreement.
     2. That which transpires in the negotiation makes no part of the agreement, unless introduced into it. It is a general rule that no evidence can be given to add, diminish, contradict or alter a written instrument. 1 Dall. 426; 4 Dall. 340; 3 S. & R. 609; 7 S. & R. 114. See Pourparler

NEGOTIATION, merc. law. The act by which a bill of exchange or promissory note is put into circulation by being passed by one of the original parties to another person.
     2. Until an accommodation bill or note has been negotiated, there is no contract which can be enforced on the note: the contract, either express or implied, that the party accommodated will indemnify the other, is, till then, conditional. 2 Man. & Gr. 911.

audience, bargaining, bargaining session, business deal, chaffer, chaffering, collective bargaining, coming to terms, commercial transaction, conclave, confab, confabulation, conference, confrontation, congress, consultation, convention, council, council fire, council of war, deal, dickering, discussion, exchange of views, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, haggle, haggling, higgling, high-level talk, huddle, interchange of views, interview, meeting, negotiations, news conference, operation, package bargaining, package deal, palaver, parley, pattern bargaining, pourparler, powwow, press conference, seance, session, sitting, summit, summit conference, summitry, transaction, turn

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