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negotiable
/nɪˈɡoʊʃəbəl/
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What does negotiable mean?
adjective
- Able to be traversed; navigable.
- Able to be transferred to another person, with or without endorsement, in exchange for money.
- Open to negotiation or bargaining.
More meanings (1)
noun
- Something that is open to negotiation.
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/nɪˈɡoʊʃəbəl/
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Anybody who has an old fact in stock that is no longer negotiable in the domestic market will let him have it at his own price.
There are cases, indeed, where the freight by sailing ship is even greater than by steamer, as the charge for warehousing at home is saved, and in the meantime the cargo while at sea is negotiable.
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‘I propose,’ said Mr. Micawber, ‘Bills--a convenience to the mercantile world, for which, I believe, we are originally indebted to the Jews, who appear to me to have had a devilish deal too much to do with them ever since--because they are negotiable.
The papers resumed their discussion about the wager; all those who had laid bets, for or against him, revived their interest, as if by magic; the “Phileas Fogg bonds” again became negotiable, and many new wagers were made.
After travelling about seven miles we mounted a small berg, and there as far as we could see stretched a series of immense flat floes from half a mile to a mile across, separated from each other by pressure-ridges which seemed easily negotiable with pick and shovel.