renegotiate
English
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[edit]Verb
[edit]renegotiate (third-person singular simple present renegotiates, present participle renegotiating, simple past and past participle renegotiated)
- (transitive) To negotiate new terms to replace old ones.
- 1986 August 2, Kenneth B. Noble, “MULTI-FIBER AGREEMENT SET BY U.S.”, in The New York Times[1]:
- The United States announced today that it had renegotiated an important agreement governing textile trade between developing nations and the industrialized countries.
- 2003 February 21, Nat Ives, “THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING -- ADDENDA; Cordiant Seeks To Sell More Assets”, in The New York Times[2]:
- The Cordiant Communications Group in London, the troubled agency company, said yesterday that it would seek to sell additional assets to reduce debt as it renegotiates its loan agreements with banks for a second time.
- 2013, Deborah Hay, My Body, The Buddhist, →ISBN, page 78:
- The compulsion to expose, renegotiate, or reinvent the strengths and weaknesses of dance tradition offers little in its final outcome to attract the average dance-goer.
- 2015, Veronica Davidov, “9: Abandoned Environments: Producing New Systems of Value Through Urban Exploration”, in Ismael Vaccaro, Krista Harper, Seth Murray, editors, The Anthropology of Postindustrialism: Ethnographies of Disconnection, unnumbered page:
- Ultimately, urbex remains a kind of cipher—occasionally, it catches media attention, and is grouped with other subcultures, like parkour, or even steampunk (Dawdy 2010), that are somehow "remixing" or renegotiating ways to relate to space, and how particular spaces are envisioned to exist within time.
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[edit]to negotiate new terms
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