NEGOTIATING Synonyms: 152 Similar and Opposite Words

negotiating

verb

present participle of negotiate

as in arranging

to bring about through discussion and compromise wanted to negotiate a higher salary before she accepted the job offer

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as in managing

to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently she's good at negotiating personality conflicts between coworkers

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as in manipulating

to plan out usually with subtle skill or care the prisoners negotiated their escape by using Morse code to tap messages to each other through the walls

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as in dealing

to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase told them I'd take $8,000 for the car and wasn't in the mood to negotiate

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as in executing

to carry through (as a process) to completion scores of experiments later, the chemists managed to negotiate the development of a more durable polymer

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Recent Examples of negotiating Senator says that's 'bottom line' Still, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, said Republicans have been negotiating in good faith. —

Terry Collins, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026 The rest of the negotiating team soon arrived, still fresh from their trip to Abu Dhabi. —

Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026 Since then, the White House has been negotiating with its trading partners, backing off on some of the more aggressive charges while maintaining tough talk on issues. —

Jeff Cox, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2026 The alleged motivation of the group boycott is to constrain costs, since older college players are more likely to be coveted by coaches and thus have more negotiating power than an incoming freshman who might redshirt. —

Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 Feb. 2026 That round of talks, in Abu Dhabi, yielded the first prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia in five months and a vague agreement to continue negotiating, but no apparent progress on the major hurdles to a wider peace deal. —

Mariia Kashchenko, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026 Chevron also is negotiating a potential return to Iraq. —

Jordan Blum, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2026 Inventory & Ordering Analyzing sales data to decide what products to stock and negotiating with vendors. —

Matt Emma, AZCentral.com, 10 Feb. 2026 Actually negotiating who does what, when and how was another. —

Jelena Kecmanovic, CNN Money, 7 Feb. 2026

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Emails show Epstein’s associates arranging meetings between him and Black from 2010 to 2017.

— Melina Khan, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
Recent articles in the news report Canada, Mexico, Central and South America arranging trading with countries who don't treat them as stepchildren.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Feb. 2026