negotiate
/nəˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., to the eight fellow clergymen who opposed the civil rights action, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait "You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.""
- "We negotiated the contract to everyone's satisfaction."
- "The client and server computers must first negotiate a network protocol to be used."
- "Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.[…]The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements."
- "We negotiated the mountain track with difficulty."
- "Although the car was quite rickety, he could negotiate the curves very well."
Etymology
c. 1598; borrowed from Latin negōtiātus, perfect active participle of negōtior (“to do business, trade”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from negotium (“business”) + -or, from nec (“not”) + otium (“leisure, ease, inactivity”).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /nəˈɡoʊ.ʃi.eɪt/
- British English: /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/