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negotiate

verb (MANAGE TO DO)
 
 
/nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/ US  /-ˈɡoʊ-/

Definition

[T] to manage to travel along a difficult route: The only way to negotiate the muddy hillside is on foot.Travelling [T] to deal with something difficult: The company's had some tricky problems to negotiate in its first year in business.Dealing with things or peopleActing and actsCoping and not copingTolerating and enduring
(Definition of negotiate verb (MANAGE TO DO) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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