Home › Words › N › negotiationshipnegotiationshipnegotiationship · noun — the state of negotiation.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, negotiationship ranks #36,605 of 43,042 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom negotiation + -ship.nounThe state of negotiation.e.g.“It's still very much early days of the operation, and we're trying to figure out if they intend to hold this territory or use it as a negotiationship or what's exactly going on.” — 2024 August 9, Mallory Yu, Sarah Handel, Mary Louise Kelly, “Here's what we know about Ukraine's military offensive in Russia”, in NPR:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).