1. (n.) The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.

2. (n.) Hence, mercantile business; trading.

3. (n.) The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, composing difference, etc.; as, the negotiations at Ghent.

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