How to Use negotiate in a Sentence

negotiate

verb
Definition of negotiatenext
Synonyms for negotiatenext
  • The customer wanted to negotiate over the price.
  • We negotiated a fair price.
  • She has good negotiating skills.
  • The driver carefully negotiated the winding road.
  • That means for the next six months, the zoo will not negotiate with other cities.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 7 May 2024
  • Young would then ride to meet the photographer, and try to negotiate to get the clip for free.
    — Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The group brought it to their managers to try to negotiate for higher pay.
    — Cora Lewis, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • His mom is the one who negotiates hard for his contracts.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 22 June 2023
  • In recent days, the House speaker has tried to amp up pressure on Biden and Democrats to negotiate.
    — Lauren Peller, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • For Eliquis, the drug on which Medicare spends the most money, Medicare negotiated the price down to $231.
    — John Wilkerson and Rachel Cohrs Zhang, STAT, 15 Aug. 2024
  • That involved negotiating a truce between the Bloods and the Crips, a rival gang, in 2000.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2024
  • A few hours later, Lee got a call from Fuchsberg: Vince was ready to negotiate with Tom.
    — Abraham Josephine Riesman, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The workers have until Jan. 15 to negotiate other terms of the deal.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The union has been on strike since July, after negotiating for more than a year and a half on a contract.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Biden has said the US is also negotiating adding the European Union to the list, and others could be added in the future.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The union is seeking a $5-an-hour pay increase each of the six years of the contract being negotiated, which would raise top hourly pay 77% over the life of the contract.
    — Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The rights deal was negotiated by Hill and Manjourides.
    — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Our position is clear: to resolve the strike, the companies will have to negotiate with the WGA on our full agenda.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 1 June 2023
  • Taylor Swift doesn’t have to negotiate a show in every city.
    — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The two sides hadn’t negotiated in the days leading up to the potential stoppage.
    — Mike Calia, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The soft spots exist so your baby can safely negotiate the narrow birth canal and allow for brain and skull growth in the first year.
    — Denise Schipani, Parents, 22 June 2023
  • Scott didn’t have a chance to negotiate a second Pac-12 media deal.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • In other words, the leader needs to negotiate on behalf of the employee, not against them.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2023
  • That contract would be the first of many the successful candidate would have to negotiate.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Hamas and Israel would then negotiate phase two — a permanent end to the war and Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
    — Michele Kelemen, NPR, 10 June 2024
  • News also broke this week that lenders had hired lawyers to negotiate debt with WeightWatchers.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Her voice was heard by Gadsden police who arrived on the scene to negotiate with Stewart.
    — Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The negotiating framework would see three prisoners freed for each hostage — the same terms as the November pause.
    — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Another name that will be returning is Roberts, who is expected to negotiate a new, potentially lucrative contract with his current deal set to expire at the end of 2025.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The most valuable work by a salesperson is directly interacting with prospects and negotiating sales.
    — Thomas Lah, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024

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