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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | achieve settlement |
| Synonyms: | adjudge, adjudicate, adjust, bring to terms, come to school, come to terms, conciliate, decide, determine, hammer out a deal, interpose, intervene, judge, make a deal, mediate, meet halfway, negotiate, parley, pass judgment, placate, play ball, reconcile, referee, settle, smooth, soothe, step in, straighten out, strike happy medium, trade off, umpire, work out a deal |
| Antonyms: | let ride |
| Main Entry: | cut a deal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a deal |
| Synonyms: | bargain, barter, bicker, dicker, do business, hammer out a deal, negotiate, trade, work out a deal |
| Main Entry: | dicker |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bargain; argue about |
| Synonyms: | barter, buy and sell, chaffer, cut a deal, haggle, hammer out a deal, huckster, negotiate, palter, trade, work out a deal |
| Notes: | to bicker is to quarrel and to dicker is to haggle or bargain |
| Antonyms: | agree |
| Main Entry: | haggle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bicker, quarrel |
| Synonyms: | argue, bargain, barter, beat down, cavil, chaffer, deal, dicker, dispute, hammer out a deal, horse-trade, make a deal, palter, quibble, squabble, wrangle |
| Antonyms: | agree, comply, concur |
| Main Entry: | negotiate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bargain, discuss |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, adjudicate, adjust, agree, arbitrate, arrange, bring to terms, bury the hatchet, come across with, compose, concert, conciliate, confer, connect, consult, contract, covenant, cut a deal, deal, debate, dicker, haggle, hammer out a deal, handle, horse trade, intercede, make a deal, make peace, make terms, manage, mediate, moderate, network, parley*, referee, settle, step in, stipulate, swap, transact, treat, umpire, work out a deal, work out* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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