NEGOTIATING Synonyms: 152 Similar and Opposite Words

negotiating

verb

present participle of negotiate

as in arranging

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 managing

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

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as in manipulating

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 dealing

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 executing

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 negotiating Still, there was much pomp and circumstance at the gala in July, and many thousands of dollars’ worth of clothing and jewelry plus plenty of vertiginous heels negotiating with the gravel. — Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026 The five countries have been negotiating with governments mainly in Africa over potential sites, pioneering the initiative for the whole of the EU. — Claudia Ciobanu, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026 And Mersan & Tümkalıp, another machinery purveyor, is reputedly negotiating assistance deals to retroactively modernize damaged production lines that idled during the war years. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2026 Then 24, Chára played eight games for Trenčín Dukla, his hometown club, while negotiating his contract with the Senators. — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026 The snail has survived the initial shock and is now negotiating the consequences of the gamble written into its DNA. — Carrie Arnold contributing, Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2026 The student and private sector workers within the union are currently negotiating their first contracts. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026 That could mean addressing the employer directly, negotiating a resolution or, in some circumstances, negotiating an exit. — William Phillips, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Furthermore, relationships themselves teach basic psychological capacities such as regulating emotions, tolerating disappointment, and negotiating differences—skills which therapy is supposed to cultivate. — David H. Rosmarin, Time, 29 Aug. 2026

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The case turned into a years-long legal saga, with multiple people convicted of their roles in arranging the hit, including Wendi’s brother, Charlie Adelson, and her mother, Donna.

— Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
Britain’s populist Reform UK said two senior aides to leader Nigel Farage stepped down on Friday after an undercover investigation alleged the party had broken electoral law by arranging for a foreign donor to pay for political polling.

— NBC news, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of arranging

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Last Wednesday, Meta reached a settlement with the attorneys general of forty-seven states, who had sued it for illegally manipulating the attention of children.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
The experiment, therefore, suggests that empty space itself could become a new tool for manipulating quantum matter, much like other efforts to push the limits of superconducting materials.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of manipulating

Verb

Any dealing by mainstream parties with AfD is particularly sensitive in view of Germany’s Nazi past.

— Kirsten Grieshaber, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2026
If Cease and the rotation keep dealing and Louis Varland and the bullpen can survive one more month, any offensive revival would make the Jays a real threat.

— Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of dealing

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De Zerbi will take encouragement from Savio’s bright debut, with the £85million recruit from Manchester City looking bright and threatening, without executing on the final action.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Visions of executing her husband dance through her head with wonderful humor throughout.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of executing

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Yet one or more of the P5 could inject new names at the last minute, once again leaving the decision to behind-the-scenes bargaining among a few powerful states.

— Ian Johnstone, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2026
The California Gig Workers Union hopes to begin bargaining by the end of the year, CalMatters reported.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of bargaining

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The robot is designed as a general-purpose platform capable of handling a broad range of applications and improving through self-reinforcement from real-world experience.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
The only people who seem to, frankly, are the leaders at Western Michigan, the ones with the biggest complaint about this and the ones who seem to be handling it the most maturely.

— Will Leitch, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of handling

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Messages reviewed by the researchers showed agents plotting ways to evade detection, use tools such as Tor and preserve communications even after they had been shut down.

— Reuters, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
Now, in early 1943, the 33-year-old Flynn — the country’s biggest movie star — was plotting his flight from the American justice system.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026