Negotiation /(?)/

Ne·go·ti·a·tion

Negotiation

n.
  1. The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.
  2. Hence, mercantile business; trading. [Obs.]
    Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies.
  3. The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, composing difference, etc.; as, the negotiations at Ghent.
    An important negotiation with foreign powers.