Other forms: negotiators
A negotiator is somebody whose job is agreeing terms. A skilled negotiator, the chief negotiator, a hostage negotiator.
The best-evidenced advice is unglamorous: listen more than you talk, separate the people from the problem, and know what you will do if there is no deal. A hostage negotiator's first aim is time, because almost everything improves with it.
1nounnegotiatorSomebody whose job is agreeing terms.
“The union's negotiator spent all night trying to reach a deal with the company.”
negotiator is a job.
Latin negotiator means a merchant or trader, from negotium, business — literally nec otium, not leisure.
Latin
negōtiātor — merchant, banker
English, today
negotiator
Borrowed from Latin negōtiātor (“merchant, banker”), equivalent to negotiate + or.
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