NEGOTIATING Synonyms: 152 Similar and Opposite Words

negotiating

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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 In countries like Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, the push to develop local mineral value chains has taken the tone of negotiating higher equity stakes in mining projects for the government, accompanied by threats of seizures and hostile takeovers. —

Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 24 Apr. 2026 That may be easier said than done while negotiating airports and trekking across new terrain. —

Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026 The pawangs—who came from a variety of Malay, Tamil, or Arab Muslim backgrounds—also understood themselves as negotiating for safe passage with non-Muslim divinities, including the Hindu deities Shiva, Indra, Krishna, and Vishnu. —

H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 24 Apr. 2026 There was no immediate comment from the White House on Friday about any plan to send a negotiating team back to Islamabad for a second round of negotiations. —

CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026 The complaint asserts that Weisberg and other lawyers affiliated with Jackson were falsely presented to the Cascio family as representing their interests in negotiating a settlement with the estate. —

Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 24 Apr. 2026 The agreement that allowed those elections was promoted not only by the opposition but also by several Latin American leaders negotiating with Washington. —

Carlos Manuel Alvarez, Time, 24 Apr. 2026 Mastrofrancesco praised Blumenthal for negotiating changes. —

Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 24 Apr. 2026 Complicating the situation, however, was Iran’s parliament speaker resigning from the negotiating team, according to Israel’s N12 news. —

Sean Conlon,sarah Min,joseph Wilkins, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026

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Ballmer steadfastly denies arranging the deal between Aspiration and Leonard, who by all accounts performed no duties for Aspiration.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
Just three weeks ago, Vancouver Police reported five incidents involving a man allegedly robbing people after arranging to meet with him, to sell the suspect Pokémon cards.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026