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 The unions have been negotiating with the district for more than a year over wages, staffing levels and working conditions. —

Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 Apr. 2026 Asian countries’ energy and commodities imports have been strangled, and several are negotiating with Tehran for safe passage — a situation that could quickly become permanent, an academic noted. —

Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 3 Apr. 2026 Still, health care remained the dominant engine, contributing nearly 90,000 jobs—roughly half the total—with about 27,000 of those coming from striking nurses in California and Hawaii returning to work after negotiating a new contract to ensure safe staffing. —

Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026 Drugmakers that have fully executed drug pricing deals or are currently negotiating with the Health and Human Services department and are building manufacturing domestically would be exempt from the tariffs. —

Annika Kim Constantino,angelica Peebles, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2026 But the chambers are still negotiating a final version. —

Caleb Groves, AJC.com, 2 Apr. 2026 When Palestinian ambulance drivers finally made it near the girl’s location in Gaza City — after Red Crescent volunteers spent hours negotiating safe passage for the emergency vehicle — they were killed by the IDF. —

Matthew Carey, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2026 Hardliners in Tehran, including leadership of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps which would be allergic to negotiating with Washington, are still believed to wield considerable influence. —

Chris Boccia, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026 The Melreese referendum passed with about 60 percent support from Miami voters in November 2018, allowing the city and Inter Miami to begin negotiating a lease agreement. —

Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2026

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Long before Manhattan's iconic street grid took shape, an English widow laid the groundwork for a settlement in Brooklyn, arranging a small village in what would become the United States into one of the first grid patterns.

— Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
But arranging spheres becomes significantly more complex in higher dimensions, which allow for more arrangements and symmetries.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2026