NEGOTIATED Synonyms: 154 Similar and Opposite Words

negotiated

verb

past tense of negotiate

as in arranged

to bring about through discussion and compromise wanted to negotiate a higher salary before she accepted the job offer

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as in managed

to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently she's good at negotiating personality conflicts between coworkers

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as in engineered

to plan out usually with subtle skill or care the prisoners negotiated their escape by using Morse code to tap messages to each other through the walls

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as in dealt

to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase told them I'd take $8,000 for the car and wasn't in the mood to negotiate

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as in achieved

to carry through (as a process) to completion scores of experiments later, the chemists managed to negotiate the development of a more durable polymer

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Recent Examples of negotiated At the time, Epstein was serving his 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County stockade but was allowed to spend 12 hours a day, six days a week, in his office under a work-release program his attorneys had negotiated. —

Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026 Spice levels are negotiated with shorthand, on a scale from one to five. —

Timothy Depeugh, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026 Paramount announced Shell’s departure Wednesday after the two sides negotiated an amicable resolution to the drama. —

Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026 LeBlanc said the college has not received a formal purchase offer for the land and that North Richland Hills negotiated with the retailer before consulting Tarrant County College. —

Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Apr. 2026 After a couple delays, his administration eventually negotiated lower tariffs with many countries, though still higher than from before his second term. —

Stan Choe, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026 The days ahead will be crucial in determining whether the ceasefire holds and whether a more lasting agreement can be negotiated to end the war that has consumed the region and threatened global economic pain. —

Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 8 Apr. 2026 The deal was negotiated by Jarowey and SVP of Acquisitions Tony Piantedosi on behalf of Vertical and by CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers. —

Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2026 Verve Talent and Literary Agency’s Amy Beecroft negotiated the deal on behalf of Hideout with Vertical’s Tony Piantedosion. —

K.j. Yossman, Variety, 1 Apr. 2026

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Private museum tours, sandal-making workshops, and boat trips to the nearby islands of Aegina and Kea (where another One&Only opens in 2024) can be arranged.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Apr. 2026
The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf, weighing in at a thousand pages and containing over 1,400 letters (additions to the 3,766 letters that were published in six volumes, edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, between 1975 and 1980), is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

— Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026