Look up: negotiation

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   negotiation
   [n] - the activity or business of negotiating an agreement 2. [n] - a discussion intended to produce an agreement
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   Negotiation
   a give and take process between a buyer and a seller in which precise terms of supply, specification, delivery, price, and after-sales service, etc. are agreed.
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   Negotiation
   is a joint process between employer and employee representatives leading towards agreement
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   negotiation
   Bargaining over an issue. In industrial relations, trade unions and employers are likely to negotiate the pay and conditions of workers in the process of collective bargaining. In sales, a company...
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   negotiation
   process by which two session protocol machines(SPMs)agree on a common set of functional units and protocol values and on the initial setting of available tokens Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • refers to the process of making proposals, discussing such proposals, advancing counterproposals, bargaining, and, if possible, arriving at an agreement. Cat...
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   Negotiation
   Ne·go`ti·a'tion noun [ Latin negotiatio : confer French négociation .] 1. The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc. 2. Hence, mercantile business; trading. [ Obsolete] « Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies.» Evelyn. ...
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   negotiation
   1. The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. Etc. ... 2. Hence, mercantile business; trading. 'Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies.' (Evelyn) ... 3. The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by ...
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   negotiation
   dialogue 3 talks noun a discussion intended to produce an agreement; `the buyout negotiation lasted several days`; `they disagreed but kept an open dialogue`; `talks between Israelis and Palestinians`
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   negotiation
   noun the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms
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    Negotiation
    • (n.) The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc. • (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. • (n.) Hence, mercantile business; trading. ...
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    negotiation
    (from the article `war, law of`) Hostilities may be suspended pending negotiation between the parties. Negotiation may, or may not, be preceded by the display of a white flag, which ... the established method of influencing the decisions and behaviour of foreign governments and peoples through dialogue, negotiation, and other ... Bey...
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    Negotiation
    See trade negotiation.
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    Negotiation
    The process of offers and counter-offers on a proposal to reach a mutual agreement.
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    NEGOTIATION
    The face to face process used by local unions and the employer to exchange their views on those matters involving personnel policies and practices or other matters affecting the working conditions of employees in the unit and reduced to a written binding agreement. Used also by contracting officers to reach agreement with potential contractors.
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    Negotiation
    The deliberation which takes place between the parties touching a proposed agreement. That which transpires in the negotiation makes no part of the agreement, unless introduced into it. It is a general rule that no evidence can be given to add, diminish, contradict or alter a written instrument. merc. law. The act by which a bill of exchange or...
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    Negotiation
    1) It is a process by which the involved parties or group resolve matters of dispute by holding discussions and coming to an agreement which can be mutually agreed by them. It also refers to coming to closing a business deal or bargaining on some product. 2) It also means exchange of negotiable instruments such as bills of exchange, cheques etc in ...
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    negotiation
    n. 1) the transfer of a check, promissory note, bill of exchange or other negotiable instrument to another for money, goods, services or other benefit. 2) give-and-take discussion or conference in an attempt to reach an agreement or settle a dispute.
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