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Negotiate vs Meeting - What's the difference?

negotiate | meeting |

As verbs the difference between negotiate and meeting

is that negotiate is to confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement while meeting is .

As a noun meeting is

(uncountable) the action of the verb to meet .

negotiate

English

(Negotiation)

Verb

(negotiat)
  • To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.
  • * 1963 , , to the eight fellow clergymen who opposed the civil rights action, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait
    • "You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue."
  • To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.
  • To succeed in coping with, or getting over something.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 29, author=Kevin Mitchell, work=the Guardian
    • , title= Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau , passage=Novak Djokovic earlier had negotiated his own tricky passage through the fifth day.}}
  • (obsolete) To transact business; to carry on trade.
    • (Hammond)
  • (obsolete) To intrigue; to scheme.
    • (Francis Bacon)

    Derived terms

    * negotiable * negotiation * negotiator * negotiatory

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    meeting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to meet .
  • A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
    • We need to have a meeting about that soon.
  • The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
    • What has the meeting decided.
  • An encounter between people, even accidental.
    • They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
  • A place or instance of junction or intersection.
    • Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
  • A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
  • *1939 , (John Steinbeck), (The Grapes of Wrath) , p. 20:
  • *:You use ta give a good meetin' . I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.

    • Derived terms

    * meetinghouse * meeting of the minds * meeting place * meeting room * race meeting * Sunday-go-to-meeting

    Synonyms

    * assembly * convocation * gathering

    Descendants

    * Crimean Tatar: (l) (borrowed) * French: (l) (borrowed) * Russian: (borrowed) * Serbo-Croatian: (l)/ (borrowed) * Tagalog: (l) (borrowed)

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