renegotiate

verbB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,993 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: renegotiated, renegotiating

To renegotiate is to agree new terms for something already agreed. Renegotiate the contract, renegotiate the debt, forced to renegotiate.

Asking to do it is a signal in itself: it says the original bargain no longer works for one side, which weakens their position and strengthens the other's. It is standard in debt, in trade and in employment. Note that the re- means again, and negotiate comes from the Latin for not leisure.

Definitions of renegotiate

1verbrenegotiateTo agree new terms for something already agreed.B2+
“The union wants to renegotiate the contract because prices have risen so much.”

renegotiate is a re-agreeing.

Where it comes from

Latin
negōtiātus
English
negotiate
English, today
renegotiate

Built from

negōtior · Latin — to do business, trade
negotium · Latin — business
nec · Latin — not
otium · Latin — leisure, ease, inactivity

From re- + negotiate. negotiate c. 1598; Latin negōtiātus, perfect active participle of negōtior (“to do business, trade”) (see -ate), from negotium (“business”) + -ō, from nec (“not”) + otium (“leisure, ease, inactivity”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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renegotiate in the wild

In some cases, hot pluggable devices may be able to renegotiate their configuration.
Auto-configuration
In 1825, their chief, Yoholo Micco, traveled to Washington, D.C. in an attempt to renegotiate the Treaty of Indian Springs.
Eufaula people
Further delays were caused by having to re-design the backhaul to the national grid and thus having to renegotiate easement agreements with local land owners.
Mount Mercer Wind Farm
A re-trade is the practice of renegotiating the purchase price of a property or company by the buyer after initially agreeing to purchase at a higher price.
Re-trade

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the otium family

negotiate

renegotiate — used about once every 5,406 pages · #9,993 · point at the bar for the others

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