2. To treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some
business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate
with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm.
3. To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or
convention; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce;
to conduct communications or conferences.
He that negotiates between God and man Is God's
ambassador. --Cowper.
4. To intrigue; to scheme. [Obs.] --Bacon.
Constantinople had negotiated in the isles of the
Archipelago . . . the most indispensable supplies.
--Gibbon.
2. To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of
commercial law; to sell; to pass.
The notes were not negotiated to them in the usual
course of business or trade. --Kent.