2. Hence, mercantile business; trading. [Obs.]
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 diplomatic agents, in making
treaties, composing difference, etc.; as, the negotiations
at Ghent.
An important negotiation with foreign powers.
--Macaulay.