verb. (colloquial).—To contrive; to accomplish.

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  1891.  Sporting Life, 18 March. They pulled themselves together, and ultimately NEGOTIATED Hammersmith Bridge in better style.

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  1891.  Daily Chronicle, 20 March. The other two—who also NEGOTIATED the same distance, namely, a mile and a half—went together as usual.

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  1892.  MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, 32. To see him NEGOTIATE corners was one of the loveliest sights.

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  1897.  KENNARD, The Girl in the Brown Habit, ii. True, she had NEGOTIATED the obstacle all right, but if we had happened to come to grief I should have blamed myself a little.

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