different between negotiate vs higgle

English

Alternative forms

• negociate (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin negotiatus, past participle of negotiari (“to carry on business”), from negotium (“business”) (Eng. usg. 1599), from nec (“not”) + otium (“leisure, ease, inactivity”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /n?????.?i.e?t/, /n???o?.?i.e?t/, /n?????.si.e?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /n???o?.?i.e?t/, /n???o?.?i.e?t/

Verb

negotiate (third-person singular simple present negotiates, present participle negotiating, simple past and past participle negotiated)

1. (intransitive) To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.
   • 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., 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."

2. (transitive) To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement.

3. (transitive) To succeed in coping with, or getting over something.

4. (transitive) To transfer to another person with all the rights of the original holder; to pass, as a bill.
5. (obsolete) To transact business; to carry on trade.

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6. (obsolete) To intrigue; to scheme.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Derived terms

Related terms

• otiose

Translations

Further reading

• negotiate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• negotiate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Participle

neg?ti?te

1. vocative masculine singular of neg?ti?tus

English

Etymology

Probably an alteration of haggle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h???l/

Verb

higgle (third-person singular simple present higgles, present participle higgling, simple past and past participle higgled)

1. (archaic) To hawk or peddle provisions.
2. (archaic) To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); to haggle.
   • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

     to truck and higgle for a private good

Synonyms

• haggle, wrangle, chaffer, huckster.

References

• higgle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.