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negotiate

Definition

  • verb: to discuss something formally in order to make an agreement
  • verb: to confer with another so as to arrive at the settlement of some matter
  • often + 'with' or 'for'

Examples

  • The driver carefully 'negotiated' the winding road.

  • We 'negotiated' a fair price/contract.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) If we could stay where Mr.. Benson's our sketch ... Do you agree, how 't would be then. Maybe I should negotiate with the caterpillars, on the side of my elastic. A talking here? How do we know whether 't not some kind of holographic film vastleggende tovenarij? Mr.. Benson. (..)
    2007 Bee Movie