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单词 negotiate
释义

Definition of negotiate in English:

negotiate

verb nɪˈɡəʊʃɪeɪtnəˈɡoʊʃiˌeɪt
[with object]
  • 1Obtain or bring about by discussion.

    通过洽谈达成,谈成

    he negotiated a new contract with the sellers

    他与销售商谈成了一份新合同。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • After several weeks of discussion, we negotiated a new figure for rent in spite of our frustration towards the complete violation of our previously stated agreement.
    • Lawyers are busy negotiating a settlement, but meanwhile the leaders of Ireland's main political parties have been writing letters of support to Cooney.
    • Rather, they were able to negotiate a settlement with the English which brought their conflict to an end.
    • The letter said that if she agreed, a deal could be negotiated with a phone company which might bring her up to £7,000 a year in rent.
    • Instead, he and his attorney negotiated a deal before a formal indictment was brought against him.
    • Champagne glasses in hand, they announced that they had negotiated a settlement to the impending crisis.
    • The threat to smaller racecourses would come if bigger tracks decided to scrap the broadcasting contract altogether, and negotiate fresh deals for themselves individually.
    • My father, at last glimpse, cell phone glued to his ear, was negotiating a settlement for some inscrutable business deal.
    • The universal bus pass is an on-going initiative from the Region of Waterloo's transit division, Grand River Transit, to negotiate a bus pass deal with students.
    • Over the next 2 1/2 months, we negotiated a settlement, which unfortunately I am not at liberty to describe in detail.
    • The two do not discuss their animosities or attempt to negotiate a peace settlement.
    • Neither will be signed in time for today's visit of Livingston, and given the precarious financial position at Dens Park, it is uncertain whether the Dark Blues can negotiate a package to bring the two players in.
    • During a bitter divorce from his former actress wife in New York, he moved into the flat of two gay friends while a settlement was negotiated in court.
    • The old, educated, ruling elite fled after the Soviet invasion and no new ruling elite has emerged in its place capable of negotiating a peace settlement.
    • She says it's ‘so American to sue’, so instead she is negotiating a settlement with the hospital.
    • The terror was constant, especially when it became clear that all attempts to negotiate a settlement had failed.
    • It is unlikely to be contained by negotiating a settlement with the city for the same reasons there's been no settlement to date.
    • A family law barrister close to the Crikey crew advises that many men attempt to talk down their earning capacity when they are negotiating settlements with former wives.
    • For a while the police tried to negotiate a way to bring the 65 year-old cleric out of jail and off to a new cell without confrontation.
    • As for determining appropriate compensation for infringements, Mr. Smith says the province must push Ottawa to introduce guidelines for negotiating settlements.
    Synonyms
    arrange, work out, thrash out, hammer out, reach an agreement on, agree on, come to terms about, reach terms on, broker
    settle, clinch, conclude, contract, pull off, bring off, bring about, transact
    informal sort out, swing
    1. 1.1no object Try to reach an agreement or compromise by discussion.
      谈判,洽谈,协商
      they refused to negotiate with the rebels
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The group is negotiating for Single Regeneration Funds being allocated by Yorkshire Forward to revive the rural economy.
      • There is light at the end of the tunnel, however, and Dockrells United are currently negotiating for sponsorship with a well-known maker of sanitary ware.
      • I'm only surprised that so many papers were filed and it appeared to be so ugly when the parties, apparently, had been negotiating for weeks.
      • Yet Australia can play to the cultural strengths of the Pacific in negotiating for new institutions.
      • The trade authorities in the two countries have been negotiating for years and sometimes quarreled bitterly in the process.
      • The port and the unions have been negotiating for two months over the employment agreement, which covers around 240 staff.
      • But humoring allies counts for little in itself, and negotiating for its own sake has no appeal.
      • And on the one hand, you might say it's about time that, you know, the Congress did something about negotiating for a better price for prescription drugs.
      • The court rules encourage both sides to negotiate and reach agreement wherever possible.
      • I don't expect people I meet socially to address me as Mistress, unless they are negotiating for a scene with me.
      • The different caucuses should also negotiate and reach agreements between themselves in advance.
      • The United Forum of Bank Unions has been negotiating for a new agreement with Indian Banks Association since July 2 but has failed to reach a settlement.
      • That matrix was the background to the commercial adventure that formed the subject matter of the contract, not the mechanism by which the parties set about negotiating and reaching agreement.
      • The trade unions should make this as part of their bargaining when negotiating for conditions of service with employers.
      • Willingness to negotiate and compromise, when appropriate, helps regain control of an explosive situation.
      • Crees have been negotiating for 26 years to get jurisdiction over the islands, but the talks have continuously broken down.
      • He said the biggest problem at the moment was the demand for aircraft arriving for maintenance work or when they were negotiating for new owners.
      • All they are negotiating for is the right to compete for third place.
      • We have been negotiating for 18 months and then this came out of the blue.
      • Put in simple terms, he's negotiating for his survival.
      Synonyms
      discuss terms, hold talks, discuss a settlement, talk, consult together, try to reach a compromise, parley, confer, debate
      mediate, intercede, arbitrate, moderate, conciliate, act as honest broker
      bargain, haggle, wheel and deal, dicker
      informal powwow
      formal treat with someone
      archaic chaffer, palter
  • 2Find a way over or through (an obstacle or difficult route)

    顺利通过(难以通过的路);成功地越过(障碍)

    she cautiously negotiated the hairpin bend
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She would also need to negotiate a safe route to the field.
    • Progress was held up while extra engineering work was carried out to break through the concrete and negotiate the obstacle.
    • All visiting dignitaries were required to negotiate an obstacle course.
    • Extra engineering work was needed to break through the concrete and negotiate the obstacle, resulting in a slight delay to the five-month project.
    • Over very rough terrain and in negotiating large obstacles, the combined gas and hydraulics suspension system provides a very smooth and comfortable ride.
    • Finally, in the trial mode, gamers can take a dirt bike and try to negotiate an obstacle course.
    • At the acknowledged point, they all appear and attempt to negotiate the obstacle course of foot pedals and instruments.
    • Many had difficulty negotiating the cross-drive obstacle, where often it was not until they were almost upon it that is was clear whether the sheep were going through or around the outside.
    • So my challenge, should anyone care to accept it, is to negotiate a route, any route, from my home near Whitehill Road, Gravesend, into Gravesend town centre, do some basic shopping then home.
    • Whatever the weather, the friendly drivers of the Ship and Anchor bus are happy to negotiate the route between 17th Avenue and the Jubilee Auditorium.
    • A team of 19 rescuers helped paramedics negotiate obstacles including a link chain fence and an 8ft vertical drop to carry the teenager to safety.
    • We set up a live-fire combat assault lane that required the soldiers to negotiate a grueling obstacle course and engage targets as they moved through the course.
    • During the evening, guests negotiated an obstacle course of mind games and computer problems.
    • I've found lately that much of the work I might do for myself is about trying to bring influences into my life, or negotiate whatever hurdles or obstacles there may be, so I can best live and act according to my nature.
    • However, the difficulties of negotiating the political obstacles to further reform of the CAP were clearly demonstrated in November 1995.
    • We have a theory that their journey time down to us is always short because the traffic just parts for them, and people stand and doff caps as they negotiate the tricky route along the A3.
    • Would you want to be a pedestrian or cyclist using such a street while some of the drivers around here try to negotiate an obstacle course?
    • Relative hangovers are the topic of the day as Big Nosed B negotiates the back route to Phoenix with his usual driving aplomb and disregard for human or animal life.
    • In some cases there is barely room for a pedestrian never mind a pram or wheelchair etc, and it is far too dangerous to go on to the road itself to negotiate these obstacles.
    • It involves negotiating mountainous routes through snow and the ice of glaciers as well as the ascent of rock routes in a glaciated environment.
    Synonyms
    get round/past/over, make one's way round/past/over, make it round/past/over, clear, cross, pass over
    surmount, overcome, deal with, cope with
  • 3Transfer (a cheque, bill, or other document) to the legal ownership of another person, who thus becomes entitled to any benefit.

    转让(支票、汇票或票据)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It demanded, however, that the bill be negotiated.
    • INA negotiated the bill to ensure patient safety.
    • This would mean that the homes would charge higher rates for residents whose bill is negotiated and paid by Doncaster Council.
    • In our submission, that does not amount to drawing, accepting and negotiating a bill of exchange.
    • Panin Bank undertook to reimburse SCB if SCB negotiated the documents.
    • In other words, it must pay the payee (the supplier in our case), and anyone to whom the supplier negotiates the bill.
    • When the payee transfers or negotiates a bill, he is generally asked to indorse it.
    • There's a resident standing in front of him negotiating his bill.
    1. 3.1 Convert (a cheque) into cash or notes.
      洽兑(支票)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was not involved in negotiating the credit note.

Derivatives

  • negotiant

  • noun nɪˈɡəʊʃɪəntnəˈɡoʊʃ(i)ənt
    archaic
    • A person who conducts negotiations.

      a multi-issue negotiation based on the negotiant's preference
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The strength of the wine industry, especially the wines from France - and that is the standard most should strive to achieve - was as the direct result of the negotiants.
      • A new wave of smaller, more quality-oriented negotiants is starting to emerge, creating more individual, quality wines.
      • The demands of the Fallujah negotiants from the government weeks ago were obscene and they clearly reflect the overt sectarianism and regionalism of the armed groups in the area.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin negotiat- 'done in the course of business', from the verb negotiari, from negotium 'business', from neg- 'not' + otium 'leisure'.

  • The words negotiate and negotiations (Late Middle English) came into English from the Latin verb negotiari, which was made up of the two parts neg-, meaning ‘not’, and otium, ‘leisure’, the same image as business. Otium is also the root of the English word otiose (late 18th century), ‘serving no practical purpose, pointless’.

Rhymes

associate, dissociate

Definition of negotiate in US English:

negotiate

verbnəˈɡōSHēˌātnəˈɡoʊʃiˌeɪt
  • 1with object Obtain or bring about by discussion.

    通过洽谈达成,谈成

    he negotiated a new contract with the sellers

    他与销售商谈成了一份新合同。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lawyers are busy negotiating a settlement, but meanwhile the leaders of Ireland's main political parties have been writing letters of support to Cooney.
    • She says it's ‘so American to sue’, so instead she is negotiating a settlement with the hospital.
    • Over the next 2 1/2 months, we negotiated a settlement, which unfortunately I am not at liberty to describe in detail.
    • Champagne glasses in hand, they announced that they had negotiated a settlement to the impending crisis.
    • During a bitter divorce from his former actress wife in New York, he moved into the flat of two gay friends while a settlement was negotiated in court.
    • Neither will be signed in time for today's visit of Livingston, and given the precarious financial position at Dens Park, it is uncertain whether the Dark Blues can negotiate a package to bring the two players in.
    • The old, educated, ruling elite fled after the Soviet invasion and no new ruling elite has emerged in its place capable of negotiating a peace settlement.
    • It is unlikely to be contained by negotiating a settlement with the city for the same reasons there's been no settlement to date.
    • The threat to smaller racecourses would come if bigger tracks decided to scrap the broadcasting contract altogether, and negotiate fresh deals for themselves individually.
    • For a while the police tried to negotiate a way to bring the 65 year-old cleric out of jail and off to a new cell without confrontation.
    • After several weeks of discussion, we negotiated a new figure for rent in spite of our frustration towards the complete violation of our previously stated agreement.
    • A family law barrister close to the Crikey crew advises that many men attempt to talk down their earning capacity when they are negotiating settlements with former wives.
    • Rather, they were able to negotiate a settlement with the English which brought their conflict to an end.
    • My father, at last glimpse, cell phone glued to his ear, was negotiating a settlement for some inscrutable business deal.
    • Instead, he and his attorney negotiated a deal before a formal indictment was brought against him.
    • As for determining appropriate compensation for infringements, Mr. Smith says the province must push Ottawa to introduce guidelines for negotiating settlements.
    • The letter said that if she agreed, a deal could be negotiated with a phone company which might bring her up to £7,000 a year in rent.
    • The terror was constant, especially when it became clear that all attempts to negotiate a settlement had failed.
    • The two do not discuss their animosities or attempt to negotiate a peace settlement.
    • The universal bus pass is an on-going initiative from the Region of Waterloo's transit division, Grand River Transit, to negotiate a bus pass deal with students.
    Synonyms
    arrange, work out, thrash out, hammer out, reach an agreement on, agree on, come to terms about, reach terms on, broker
    1. 1.1no object Try to reach an agreement or compromise by discussion with others.
      谈判,洽谈,协商
      his government's willingness to negotiate

      他的政府想谈判的意愿。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Crees have been negotiating for 26 years to get jurisdiction over the islands, but the talks have continuously broken down.
      • The port and the unions have been negotiating for two months over the employment agreement, which covers around 240 staff.
      • The court rules encourage both sides to negotiate and reach agreement wherever possible.
      • The trade unions should make this as part of their bargaining when negotiating for conditions of service with employers.
      • Put in simple terms, he's negotiating for his survival.
      • Willingness to negotiate and compromise, when appropriate, helps regain control of an explosive situation.
      • All they are negotiating for is the right to compete for third place.
      • There is light at the end of the tunnel, however, and Dockrells United are currently negotiating for sponsorship with a well-known maker of sanitary ware.
      • The United Forum of Bank Unions has been negotiating for a new agreement with Indian Banks Association since July 2 but has failed to reach a settlement.
      • That matrix was the background to the commercial adventure that formed the subject matter of the contract, not the mechanism by which the parties set about negotiating and reaching agreement.
      • The different caucuses should also negotiate and reach agreements between themselves in advance.
      • I don't expect people I meet socially to address me as Mistress, unless they are negotiating for a scene with me.
      • Yet Australia can play to the cultural strengths of the Pacific in negotiating for new institutions.
      • He said the biggest problem at the moment was the demand for aircraft arriving for maintenance work or when they were negotiating for new owners.
      • The trade authorities in the two countries have been negotiating for years and sometimes quarreled bitterly in the process.
      • But humoring allies counts for little in itself, and negotiating for its own sake has no appeal.
      • We have been negotiating for 18 months and then this came out of the blue.
      • I'm only surprised that so many papers were filed and it appeared to be so ugly when the parties, apparently, had been negotiating for weeks.
      • The group is negotiating for Single Regeneration Funds being allocated by Yorkshire Forward to revive the rural economy.
      • And on the one hand, you might say it's about time that, you know, the Congress did something about negotiating for a better price for prescription drugs.
      Synonyms
      discuss terms, hold talks, discuss a settlement, talk, consult together, try to reach a compromise, parley, confer, debate
  • 2with object Find a way over or through (an obstacle or difficult path)

    顺利通过(难以通过的路);成功地越过(障碍)

    there was a puddle to be negotiated

    有一个水坑要越过去。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In some cases there is barely room for a pedestrian never mind a pram or wheelchair etc, and it is far too dangerous to go on to the road itself to negotiate these obstacles.
    • It involves negotiating mountainous routes through snow and the ice of glaciers as well as the ascent of rock routes in a glaciated environment.
    • Many had difficulty negotiating the cross-drive obstacle, where often it was not until they were almost upon it that is was clear whether the sheep were going through or around the outside.
    • During the evening, guests negotiated an obstacle course of mind games and computer problems.
    • At the acknowledged point, they all appear and attempt to negotiate the obstacle course of foot pedals and instruments.
    • We set up a live-fire combat assault lane that required the soldiers to negotiate a grueling obstacle course and engage targets as they moved through the course.
    • However, the difficulties of negotiating the political obstacles to further reform of the CAP were clearly demonstrated in November 1995.
    • So my challenge, should anyone care to accept it, is to negotiate a route, any route, from my home near Whitehill Road, Gravesend, into Gravesend town centre, do some basic shopping then home.
    • I've found lately that much of the work I might do for myself is about trying to bring influences into my life, or negotiate whatever hurdles or obstacles there may be, so I can best live and act according to my nature.
    • Would you want to be a pedestrian or cyclist using such a street while some of the drivers around here try to negotiate an obstacle course?
    • Whatever the weather, the friendly drivers of the Ship and Anchor bus are happy to negotiate the route between 17th Avenue and the Jubilee Auditorium.
    • We have a theory that their journey time down to us is always short because the traffic just parts for them, and people stand and doff caps as they negotiate the tricky route along the A3.
    • Progress was held up while extra engineering work was carried out to break through the concrete and negotiate the obstacle.
    • Finally, in the trial mode, gamers can take a dirt bike and try to negotiate an obstacle course.
    • All visiting dignitaries were required to negotiate an obstacle course.
    • A team of 19 rescuers helped paramedics negotiate obstacles including a link chain fence and an 8ft vertical drop to carry the teenager to safety.
    • Extra engineering work was needed to break through the concrete and negotiate the obstacle, resulting in a slight delay to the five-month project.
    • Over very rough terrain and in negotiating large obstacles, the combined gas and hydraulics suspension system provides a very smooth and comfortable ride.
    • Relative hangovers are the topic of the day as Big Nosed B negotiates the back route to Phoenix with his usual driving aplomb and disregard for human or animal life.
    • She would also need to negotiate a safe route to the field.
    Synonyms
    get over, get past, get round, make one's way over, make one's way past, make one's way round, make it over, make it past, make it round, clear, cross, pass over
  • 3with object Transfer (a check, bill, or other document) to the legal ownership of another person.

    转让(支票、汇票或票据)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • INA negotiated the bill to ensure patient safety.
    • There's a resident standing in front of him negotiating his bill.
    • In our submission, that does not amount to drawing, accepting and negotiating a bill of exchange.
    • This would mean that the homes would charge higher rates for residents whose bill is negotiated and paid by Doncaster Council.
    • When the payee transfers or negotiates a bill, he is generally asked to indorse it.
    • It demanded, however, that the bill be negotiated.
    • Panin Bank undertook to reimburse SCB if SCB negotiated the documents.
    • In other words, it must pay the payee (the supplier in our case), and anyone to whom the supplier negotiates the bill.
    1. 3.1 Convert (a check) into cash.
      洽兑(支票)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was not involved in negotiating the credit note.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin negotiat- ‘done in the course of business’, from the verb negotiari, from negotium ‘business’, from neg- ‘not’ + otium ‘leisure’.

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