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)

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)

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) (banakcʿutʿyun)
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)
Hindi: बातचीत (hi) f (bātcīt), परक्रामण m (parakrāmaṇ)
Hungarian: tárgyalás (hu), egyeztetés (hu), egyezkedés (hu), megbeszélés (hu)
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 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