Keep and Negotiate

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Keep

Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
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Negotiate is an antonym for keep.
Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Negotiate

Negotiate verb - To bring about through discussion and compromise.
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Synonyms for Negotiate
Antonyms for Negotiate
Keep is an antonym for negotiate in bargain topic.
Nearby Words: negotiation, negotiator, negotiable, negotiating, negotiant
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Common collocations

peace keep peace negotiate peace
time keep time negotiate time
way keep way negotiate way
everyone keep everyone negotiate everyone
Other words: friends.

Both words in one sentence

  • Trouser Space In an episode of Babylon 5, Sheridan is going to negotiate with a Mad Bomber and wants to keep a com line open with Garibaldi.
    Source: Trouser Space
  • First Contact Naturally, this huge list of boons only serves to make the admiral, who's tasked by the UN Security Council to negotiate with them and keep them away from Earth, suspicious of their motives.
    Source: First Contact
  • Discreet Drink Disposal Moist von Lipwig in Raising Steam has to negotiate with elderly aristocrats who look like amiable old duffers but have minds like razors and keep offering him brandy.
    Source: Discreet Drink Disposal
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