Negotiate

 WORD OF THE DAY

negotiate / verb / nih-GOH-shee-ayt

Definition
1a: to deal with (some matter or affair that requires ability for its successful handling)
1b: manage
1c: to arrange for or bring about through conference, discussion, and compromise
2a: to transfer (something, such as a bill of exchange) to another by delivery or endorsement
2b: to convert into cash or the equivalent value
3a: to successfully travel along or over
3b: compete, accomplish

Examples
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced this week Democrats have reached a deal to lower prescription drug pricing, which would include putting a cap on annual out-of-pocket spending for seniors and allow Medicare to negotiate drug costs.
— Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2021

In that budget, the President proposed allowing Medicare, the federal health insurance program for elderly and disabled people, to directly negotiate drug prices with manufacturers—which it currently isn’t allowed to do.
— Yasmin Tayag, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2021

Did You Know?
Negotiate comes from Latin negōtiārī, meaning "to carry on business," and the word shares that meaning.
In English, it can also mean "to successfully travel along or over."
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.