negotiating
- 1Present participle and gerund of negotiate.
Union leaders are negotiating better terms for the night-shift workers.
Negotiating the merger took the two companies the better part of a year.
Note
The -ing form carries every meaning of negotiate, and its grammar tells them apart. Used intransitively, it pairs with with: negotiating with the union. Used transitively, its object is either the thing settled (negotiating a contract) or the obstacle got past (negotiating a steep bend). As a gerund it still takes a direct object, as in negotiating the merger. The older senses of trading and scheming are obsolete.
She spent the morning negotiating with the landlord over repairs.
The driver was carefully negotiating the icy mountain pass.
negotiating is a form of negotiate
negotiate, verb: To discuss something with others in order to reach an agreement or settle on terms. Full entry
- Forms
- negotiatenegotiates he/she/itnegotiating -ing formnegotiated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- negotiate → negotiating: drop the e, add -ing
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