say it: ni-goh-shee-AY-shuhn
negotiation is a noun meaning "a discussion intended to produce an agreement". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a discussion intended to produce an agreement
“the buyout negotiation lasted several days”
“they disagreed but kept an open dialogue”
“talks between Israelis and Palestinians”
the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for negotiation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.