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.

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To succeed in coping with, or getting over something.

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(obsolete) To transact business; to carry on trade.

(Hammond)

(obsolete) To intrigue; to scheme.

(Francis Bacon)

Verb

(en verb)

To forgive.

* 1599 : (William Shakespeare),

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

* 1815 : (Jane Austen), (Emma)

I hope you will not find he has outstepped the truth more than may be pardoned , in consideration of the motive.

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To refrain from exacting as a penalty.

* Shakespeare

I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.

(legal) To grant an official pardon for a crime; unguilt.

* 1900', , ' (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,

The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.