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noun a discussion intended to produce an agreement
noun the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms
originBorrowed from Middle French négociation, or from Latin negotiatio (“the carrying on of business, a wholesale business”), from negotiari (“to carry on business”). By surface analysis, negotiate + -ion.
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