Negotiate
Negotiate , intransitive verb
[Latin negotiatus, past participle of negotiari, from negotium business; nec not + otium leisure. Compare Neglect.]
1.
To transact business; to carry on trade. [Obsolete] — Hammond
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. [Obsolete] — Bacon
Negotiate , transitive verb
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.