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 Traffic through the waterway remains low and although Iran and Oman are negotiating over the waterway, there are no immediate signs of a deal. — Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026 He may be entitled to dislike the Supreme Court’s answer but he is really not entitled to keep fidgeting with it as though a constitutional Supreme Court judgment were merely a negotiating position. — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026 When negotiating with health systems, insurers and provider networks, employers should ask not only what services cost, but why. — Eugene Litvak, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026 Without getting into the legalities around breaking contracts, Newcastle were negotiating with an autonomous entity in Saudi club Al Ahli. — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026 Boeing, Raytheon and the Department of War will increase production before negotiating a multiyear procurement award. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026 The film also shows Reagan confidently teasing his negotiating team about being Democrats, which was probably done so that the movie could make the summit seem like a bipartisan effort. — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026 Unlike in the past, the department would not run the rental operation, and the city is negotiating with a vendor interested in operating the service, Kim said. — Hanna Kang, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2026 Under the proposal which Iran and Oman have been negotiating for several days, ships entering the strait would use the route closest to Iran, under Tehran's coordination, sources said. — Mark Osborne, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026

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Verb

After retiring from working in 2019, Norris enjoyed growing and arranging flowers from her yard.

— Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
The morning of the wedding could be spent escaping the madness for a moment of peace among the trees, or arranging a pre-wedding morning coffee overlooking the estate.

— Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of arranging

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Mourinho’s first game back at the Bernabeu should be box-office given the divisions his last spell in charge from 2010 to 2013 caused at Madrid — and his behaviour when managing Benfica against Madrid in the Champions League last year.

— Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Yet Schore makes a compelling case that the greatest opportunity for reclaiming time isn't found by reorganizing schedules but by managing the internal conversations that quietly consume them.

— Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of managing

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Sandoval’s ex, Dillon Maquindang, stood at a podium Thursday morning and decried the defendant for cheating on them, manipulating them and taking out his failures on Maquindang’s family.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2026
In recent years, totalizing ideologies such as communism, fascism, and Islamism have found dedicated audiences on social media, and the proliferation of demagogues manipulating people for malign ends is an ever-present worry.

— James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of manipulating

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Had the technical stood, Clark would have been forced to sit out Tuesday’s matchup against the New York Liberty, dealing a significant blow to Indiana as the Fever continue their push through the season.

— Chantz Martin OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Irish police said at the time that the ⁠gang had ‌gone from dealing heroin and cocaine in Dublin in the 1990s to operating across Europe.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of dealing

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Some nonprofits become exceptionally good at executing tasks.

— Sonya Thompson, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
The policy requires officers to activate cameras during routine enforcement activities, including while making arrests, executing search warrants and responding to emergencies.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of executing

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This comes several days after Stanford football players created a campus chapter of the College Football Players Association, with the goal of collectively bargaining with the ACC.

— PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 2 Aug. 2026
No deployment date has been set for Hyundai’s Korean plants at all, so the union is bargaining pre-emptively, trying to lock in protections before the humanoid robots show up rather than after.

— John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of bargaining

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Balancing privacy and publicity isn’t new, says Alice Marshall, who runs her own public relations agency handling luxury travel clients.

— Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Police have confirmed that the victim is an AutoZone employee who was accidentally shot by a coworker handling a firearm inside the store.

— CBS News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026