Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being negotiable, or transferable by assignment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being negotiable or transferable by indorsement.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state of being negotiable - used especially of a financial instrument.

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Examples

  • One real-estate executive surmised that that kind of negotiability indicated a buyers 'market.

    That's Patriotism! Two Houses In Deals for $10.5 Million-Plus 2001

  • This principle, it would seem, favors recognition in bankruptcy of a purchaser's state law rights to "negotiability" (to use Professor Levitin's shorthand), subject to subordination and disallowance only in "drastic and unusual" circumstances

    Bankruptcy Litigation Blog 2008

  • And, because there is less price negotiability in the lower market, they tend to move quicker in this market.

    Hamptons for Beginners 2009

  • Problems are meant to be solved, usually with a blend of firmness and negotiability that is devoid of emotion, ideology, or sentimentality.

    American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009

  • And, because there is less price negotiability in the lower market, they tend to move quicker in this market.

    Hamptons for Beginners 2009

  • One way we can discern this is the utter non-negotiability of the interventionist position.

    Lew Rockwell: Are Conservatives Crazy? 2008

  • In general, the courts, too, with some vacillation, gave these bonds the magic password of negotiability.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • One law stripped the notes and mortgages of negotiability, so that the farmers could raise the defense of fraud, before friendly local juries in foreclosure suits.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Municipal and corporate bonds were drawn into the orbit of negotiability.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • In some states, statutes settled the issue in favor of negotiability.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

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