negotiate

verb

1 the government refused to negotiate:

discuss terms, hold talks, discuss a settlement, talk, consult together, try to reach a compromise, parley, confer, debate;

mediate, intercede, arbitrate, moderate, conciliate, act as honest broker;

bargain, haggle, wheel and deal, dicker;

formal treat with someone;

archaic chaffer, palter.

2 Peter decided to remain with the company after negotiating a new contract:

arrange, work out, thrash out, hammer out, reach an agreement on, agree on, come to terms about, reach terms on, broker;

settle, clinch, conclude, contract, pull off, bring off, bring about, transact;

informal sort out, swing.

3 he came down, managing with difficulty to negotiate the obstacles on the stairs:

get around/past/over, make one's way around/past/over, make it around/past/over, clear, cross, pass over;

surmount, overcome, deal with, cope with.