negotiation
Other forms: negotiations
A negotiation is a business-oriented conversation where two sides argue, discuss, and compromise to reach some agreement.
When you hear the word negotiation, you know there are two sides and they're willing to talk to each other. In sports, the owners and the players union go through a negotiation to get a new contract. Parents and kids might have a negotiation over curfew time. Negotiation implies that both sides are willing to give something up and compromise. If your side won't give an inch, then you're not ready for negotiation.
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a discussion intended to produce an agreement“the buyout negotiation lasted several days”types:parleya negotiation between enemiesbargainingthe negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreementcollective bargainingnegotiation between an employer and a trade unionhorse tradingnegotiation accompanied by mutual concessions and shrewd bargainingmediationa negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial partyplea bargain, plea bargaining(criminal law) a negotiation in which the defendant agrees to enter a plea of guilty to a lesser charge and the prosecutor agrees to drop a more serious chargedollar diplomacyforeign policy influenced by economic considerationsgunboat diplomacy, power politicsdiplomacy in which the nations threaten to use force in order to obtain their objectivesrecognitionthe explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a countryshuttle diplomacyinternational negotiations conducted by a mediator who frequently flies back and forth between the negotiating partiesholdouta refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better dealarbitration(law) the hearing and determination of a dispute by an impartial referee agreed to by both parties (often used to settle disputes between labor and management)conciliationany of various forms of mediation whereby disputes may be settled short of arbitrationumpiragemediation by an umpiretype of:
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the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to termstype of:activityany specific behavior
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On December 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the United States naval base located at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Over 2,400 Americans died. The next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed Congress to ask for a declaration of war. He began by referring to December 7th as "a date that will live in infamy." The Pearl Harbor attack brought the United States into World War II and was the most deadly foreign attack on American soil until the 9/11 attacks by al Qaeda in 2001.
