negotiant
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of negotiant
1605–15; < Latin negōtiant-, stem of negōtiāns, noun use of present participle of negōtiārī. See negotiate, -ant
Example Sentences
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The onetime plowboy was. of course, General Electric's Owen D. Young, chief negotiant for the U. S. in Paris, chairman of the Second Dawes Committee.
From Time Magazine Archive
The real Italian negotiant, volpine and omnipresent was Signor Dino Grandi, nominally UnderSecretary for Foreign Affairs, actually the intimate, personal representative of the Dictator.
From Time Magazine Archive
His virtues are those of a trained and astute negotiant who for years has had a finger in all the diplomatic pies of the Near East.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Ma foi," said the commandant, "c'est un negotiant, un bourgeois"—take him away to the citadel, we will examine him to-morrow, at present we must dress for the comedie—"Allons."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832 by Various
Only an occasional negotiant comes up from Gap or Grenoble, seeking orders in the villages, for whom the ordinary auberges suffice.
From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel
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