negotiable.

1. Open to discussion and possible agreement or modification.

2. Transferable to another holder through a recognized legal process.

3. Capable of being traversed or dealt with successfully.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• negotiable terms
• negotiable condition

On the page

The deadline was negotiable, but the eligibility rule was fixed.

The terms remained negotiable until the agreement was signed.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally relational or categorical; comparison only where the particular property admits gradation. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: formal properties, scope and scale, organizational relations, analytic representation. Disciplines: academic writing, formal methods, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common.