renegotiate

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verb

To negotiate new terms to replace old ones.

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Meanings

verbrenegotiate (third-person singular simple present renegotiates, present participle renegotiating, simple past and past participle renegotiated)

present singular third person renegotiates · participle present renegotiating · participle past renegotiated · past renegotiated

  1. transitiveTo negotiate new terms to replace old ones.

    The United States announced today that it had renegotiated an important agreement governing textile trade between developing nations and the industrialized countries.

    1986 February 8, Kenneth B. Noble, “MULTI-FIBER AGREEMENT SET BY U.S.”, in The New York Times
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    The Cordiant Communications Group in London, the troubled agency company, said yesterday that it would seek to sell additional assets to reduce debt as it renegotiates its loan agreements with banks for a second time.

    2003 February 21, Nat Ives, “THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING -- ADDENDA; Cordiant Seeks To Sell More Assets”, in The New York Times

    The compulsion to expose, renegotiate, or reinvent the strengths and weaknesses of dance tradition offers little in its final outcome to attract the average dance-goer.

    2013, Deborah Hay, My Body, The Buddhist, →ISBN, page 78

    Ultimately, urbex remains a kind of cipher—occasionally, it catches media attention, and is grouped with other subcultures, like parkour, or even steampunk (Dawdy 2010), that are somehow "remixing" or renegotiating ways to relate to space, and how particular spaces are envisioned to exist within time.

    2015, Veronica Davidov, “9: Abandoned Environments: Producing New Systems of Value Through Urban Exploration”, in Ismael Vaccaro, Krista Harper, Seth Murray, editors, The Anthropology of Postindustrialism: Ethnographies of Disconnection, unnumbered page

Synonyms & antonyms

verbnegociate anew

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verbrevise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishnegotiate
  7. Englishrenegotiate

From re- + negotiate.

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Translations

Bulgarian предоговарям
  • предоговарям (predogovarjam)to negotiate new terms
Catalan renegociar
  • renegociarto negotiate new terms
Dutch heronderhandelen
  • heronderhandelento negotiate new terms
Finnish neuvotella uusiksi
  • neuvotella uusiksito negotiate new terms
French renégocier
  • renégocierto negotiate new terms
German neu verhandeln, neu aushandeln
  • neu verhandelnto negotiate new terms
  • neu aushandelnto negotiate new terms
  • nachverhandelnto negotiate new terms
Greek επαναδιαπραγματεύομαι
  • επαναδιαπραγματεύομαι (epanadiapragmatévomai)to negotiate new terms
Italian rinegoziare
  • rinegoziareto negotiate new terms
Norwegian Bokmål reforhandle
  • reforhandleto negotiate new terms
Polish renegocjować
  • renegocjowaćto negotiate new terms
Portuguese renegociar
  • renegociarto negotiate new terms
Spanish renegociar
  • renegociarto negotiate new terms
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Chicago

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