Verb
To transact business; to carry on trade.
To treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm.
To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or convention; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences.
To intrigue; to scheme.
To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange.
To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLet us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. John F. Kennedy
I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. Thom Mayne
We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death. Ferdinand Marcos
Negotiate a river by following its bends, enter a country by following its customs. Cambodian Proverb
You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. American Proverb
Choose to fight, not negotiate. Klingon Proverb