Meanings
comparative more negotiable · superlative most negotiable
- businessAble to be transferred to another person, with or without endorsement, in exchange for money.
The court had to decide if a "telecheck" had been "signed" by the purported "drawer," and in doing so the court had to determine whether a "telecheck" is a negotiable instrument[…]
2003, Daniel V. Davidson, Brenda E. Knowles, Lynn M. Forsythe, Business law: principles and cases in the legal environment, page 498 - Open to negotiation or bargaining.
Salary is negotiable, according to education and experience.
plural negotiables
- Something that is open to negotiation.
“It is only once you start looking at houses that you realize what you do and don’t like, and what your negotiables and nonnegotiables are,” Ms. Wexler said.
2007 August 26, Joyce Cohen, “No Longer Boxed In”, in The New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecapable of being passed or negotiated
adjectiveable to be negotiated or arranged by compromise
adjectivelegally transferable to the ownership of another
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Catalan practicable, negociable
- practicableable to be traversed
- negociableable to be transferred to another person, with or without endorsement
- negociableopen to negotiation or bargaining
Finnish kulkukelpoinen, siirtokelpoinen
- kulkukelpoinenable to be traversed
- siirtokelpoinenable to be transferred to another person, with or without endorsement
- neuvoteltavaopen to negotiation or bargaining
- neuvoteltavissa olevaopen to negotiation or bargaining
French négociable
- négociableopen to negotiation or bargaining
German überwindbar, befahrbar
- überwindbarable to be traversed
- befahrbarable to be traversed
- negoziabelable to be transferred to another person, with or without endorsement
- verhandelbaropen to negotiation or bargaining
Hungarian járható, legyőzhető
- járhatóable to be traversed
- legyőzhetőable to be traversed
- legyűrhetőable to be traversed
- leküzdhetőable to be traversed
- átruházhatóable to be transferred to another person, with or without endorsement
- forgathatóable to be transferred to another person, with or without endorsement
- beválthatóable to be transferred to another person, with or without endorsement
- leszámíthatóable to be transferred to another person, with or without endorsement
- forgalomképesable to be transferred to another person, with or without endorsement
- bankképesable to be transferred to another person, with or without endorsement
- tőzsdeképesable to be transferred to another person, with or without endorsement
- eladhatóable to be transferred to another person, with or without endorsement
Italian negoziabile
- negoziabileopen to negotiation or bargaining
Polish negocjowalny
- negocjowalnyopen to negotiation or bargaining
Portuguese negociável
- negociávelopen to negotiation or bargaining
Spanish negociable
- negociableopen to negotiation or bargaining
Swedish förhandlingsbar
- förhandlingsbaropen to negotiation or bargaining
Cite this entry
negotiable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/negotiable
“negotiable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/negotiable. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “negotiable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/negotiable.
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