It's the Word of the Day podcast for November 23rd.

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Today's word is negotiate, spelled N-E-G-O-T-I-A-T-E. Negotiate is a verb. To negotiate is to

discuss something formally in order to make an agreement. Negotiate can also

mean when applied to people or things in motion to get through or around or over successfully.

Here's the word used in a sentence from, what are children for on ambivalence and choice by

Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman.

Once in relationships, millennials are keen to protect their personal interests,

a change reflected in their embrace of prenuptial agreements,

and unprecedentedly high rates at which they maintain separate bank accounts,

and even in the way they negotiate domestic

affairs and disputes. The word negotiate found its way into the English language from the Latin

verb negotiare, meaning to do business, trade, or deal. Since its arrival, this word has developed a variety of applications. The doing

business sense is still going strong. In addition to its most common use in situations where

formal decisions, such as a price to be paid, are made by way of discussion, negotiate is also used to talk about the transfer or conversion of money,

as in the phrase negotiate a check.

Negotiate has applications outside of commerce, too.

It's sometimes used to mean to successfully travel along or over

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