negotiation

English

Alternative forms

• negociation (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French négociation, or from Latin negotiatio (“the carrying on of business, a wholesale business”), from negotiari (“to carry on business”); see negotiate.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nɪˌɡəʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, /nɪˌɡəʊ.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /nɪˌɡoʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, /nəˌɡoʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/

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• Hyphenation: ne‧go‧ti‧a‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

negotiation (countable and uncountable, plural negotiations)

1. The process of achieving agreement through discussion.

   The specifics of the contract are still under negotiation.

   The two parties entered into negotiations about the merger.

Hyponyms

• content negotiation (Web)

Derived terms

• negotiation table

Related terms

• negotiable
• negotiate
• negotiator
• otiose

 

Translations

process of achieving agreement

• Albanian: negocim m
• Arabic: مُفَاوَضَات f pl (mufāwaḍāt), مُذَاكَرَات f pl (muḏākarāt)
• Armenian: բանակցություն (hy) (banakcʻutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: danışıq (az), danışıqlar pl
• Belarusian: перагаво́ры m pl (pjerahavóry), перамо́вы f pl (pjeramóvy)
• Bulgarian: пре́говори (bg) m pl (prégovori)
• Burmese: စေ့စပ်ရေး (my) (ce.cap-re:)
• Catalan: negociació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 談判／谈判 (zh) (tánpàn), 交涉 (zh) (jiāoshè)

• Czech: vyjednávání n, negociace f
• Danish: forhandling (da) c
• Dutch: onderhandeling (nl) f
• Estonian: läbirääkimine, läbirääkimised pl
• Finnish: neuvottelu (fi)
• French: négociation (fr) f
• Galician: negociación (gl) f
• Georgian: მოლაპარაკება (molaṗaraḳeba)
• German: Verhandlung (de) f
• Greek: παζάρεμα (el) f (pazárema)
• Hebrew: מַשָּׂא וּמַתָּן (he) m (masá umatán)
• Hindi: बातचीत (hi) f (bātcīt), परक्रामण m (parakrāmaṇ)
• Hungarian: tárgyalás (hu), egyeztetés (hu), egyezkedés (hu), megbeszélés (hu)
• Icelandic: viðræður f pl
• Indonesian: negosiasi (id)
• Italian: negoziato (it) m, negoziazione (it) f
• Japanese: 交渉 (ja) (こうしょう, kōshō)
• Kazakh: келіссөз (kelıssöz), келіссөздер pl (kelıssözder)
• Khmer: ការចរចា (km) (kaacɑɑcaa)
• Korean: 교섭(交涉) (ko) (gyoseop), 협상(協商) (ko) (hyeopsang)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: mizakere (ku) f, danûstandin (ku) f, guftûgo (ku) f, gotûbêj (ku) f, nîqaş (ku) f, dêwan (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: сүйлөшүүлөр (ky) pl (süylöşüülör)
• Lao: ການເຈລະຈາ (kān chē la chā)
• Latvian: sarunas f pl
• Lithuanian: derybos f pl
• Macedonian: преговори m pl (pregovori)
• Malay: rundingan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forhandling m or f

• Occitan: negociacion (oc) f
• Pashto: مذاکره f (mozākera)
• Persian: مذاکره (fa) (mozâkere)
• Polish: negocjacja f, negocjacje (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: negociação (pt) f
• Romanian: negociere (ro) f
• Russian: перегово́ры (ru) m pl (peregovóry)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пре̏гово̄р m, пре̏гово̄ри m pl

  Roman: prȅgovōr m, prȅgovōri (sh) m pl

• Slovak: vyjednávanie n, rokovanie n
• Slovene: pregovor (sl) m, pogajanja n pl
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: jadnanje n

• Spanish: negociación (es) f
• Swedish: förhandling (sv) c, underhandling (sv) c
• Tajik: музокира (muzokira), музокирот pl (muzokirot)
• Telugu: బేరం (te) (bēraṁ)
• Thai: การต่อรอง (th) (gaan-dtɔ̀ɔ-rɔɔng)
• Turkish: müzakere (tr)
• Ukrainian: перегово́ри m pl (perehovóry), перемо́ви f pl (peremóvy), перемо́вини f pl (peremóvyny)
• Urdu: مذاکرہ m (muzākarā)
• Uyghur: سۆھبەت (söhbet)
• Uzbek: muzokara (uz), muzokaralar pl
• Vietnamese: sự đàm phán (vi)
• Welsh: trafodaeth (cy) f

See also

• arbitration

 

Further reading

• “negotiation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “negotiation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• negotiation in The Negotiation Experts, 1996