Negotiate /(?)/

1. To transact business; to carry on trade. [Obs.]
2. To treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm.
3. To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, convention, or other proposed agreement; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences.

   He that negotiates between God and man Is God's ambassador.

4. To intrigue; to scheme. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. Negotiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Negotiating

1. To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange.

   Constantinople had negotiated in the isles of the Archipelago . . . the most indispensable supplies.

2. To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass.

   The notes were not negotiated to them in the usual course of business or trade.