negotiation

The act or process of negotiating.

The transfer of a negotiable instrument.

Trading; mercantile business; trafficking.

Mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of a transaction or agreement, whether directly or by agents or intermediaries; the act or process of treating with another or others in regard to the settlement of some matter, or for the purchase or sale of a commodity, etc.: as, the negotiation of a treaty or a loan.

In com., the act or procedure by which a bill of exchange, etc., is made negotiable—that is, made capable, by acceptance and indorsement, of being passed from hand to hand in payment of indebtedness, or of being transferred to another for a consideration. See negotiable.

The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.

Hence, mercantile business; trading.

The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, composing difference, etc..

The process of achieving agreement through discussion.

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