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negotiate (verb):
1 : to discuss something formally in order to make an agreement
2 : to agree on (something) by formally discussing it
3 : to get over, through, or around (something) successfully
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : For the first 250 years of its life, negotiate had meanings that hewed pretty closely to its Latin root, negotiari, meaning “to carry on business.” Around the middle of the 19th century, though, it developed the meaning “to successfully travel along or over.” Although this sense was criticized in the New York Sun in 1906 as a “barbarism creeping into the language,” and Henry Fowler’s 1926 A Dictionary of Modern English Usage declared that any writer who used it was “literally a barbarian,” it has thrived and is now fully established.
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