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Antonija Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Negotiating/negotiation

Hello!
I'm not sure if there is a rule on whether one should use negotiating or negotiation in the following collocations:

negotiating or negotiation strategy
negotiation/negotiating tactics
negotiating power, negotiation power or power of negotiation
negotiating/negotiation skills
negotiating/negotiation practice
negotiating/negotiation system.

Or should I simply choose and be consistent?

Thank you in advance.
  

Top answer

The two words are different parts of speech. Negotiation = NOUN. to Negotiate/ Negotiating = VERB.

— Anonymous

  • The two words are different parts of speech.
  • Negotiation = NOUN.
  • to Negotiate/ Negotiating = VERB.
  • ex.
  • Negotiation strategy (it is a thing, not an action) Negotiation tactics (again, a thing not an action) Negotiation practice (a thing) It appears that everything on the list will use negotiation because system, practice, skills, etc are all nouns.
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The two words are different parts of speech.

Negotiation = NOUN.
to Negotiate/ Negotiating = VERB.

ex.
Negotiation strategy (it is a thing, not an action)
Negotiation tactics (again, a thing not an action)
Negotiation practice (a thing)

It appears that everything on the list will use negotiation because system, practice, skills, etc are all nouns.
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Thank you, of course it helps. Although, it is strange how often it is used the other way around:
negotiating strategy, negotiating tactics.
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AntonijaAlthough, it is strange how often it is used the other way around:

negotiating strategy, negotiating tactics.


Noun phrases like these, are, to me, perfectly good English. For example:

"We had a good negotiating strategy."

"Our negotiating tactics were poor."

I can't really give a logical reason why on
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So, do you think I should choose and stick to one option?

I also found negotiating teamsEmotion: smile! confusing!
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AntonijaSo, do you think I should choose and stick to one option?

I wouldn't feel confident about making a universal rule like that. One would need to see the context of each individual use.
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Mr Wordy, can I please ask you (and others) some questions?

Would you use negotiation system or negotiating system?
What about power of negotiation, negotiating power, negotiation power?

Thank you
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With these questions it would be helpful to see full sentences.

The most usual form of words is "negotiating power".

"negotiating/negotiation system" doesn't seem so clear-cut to me. I think I'd usually choose "negotiating" -- but, as I say, I'd prefer to see the whole sentence.
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Win-win solutions, naturally, do not come unaided; they are usually the result of the negotiators' motivation, which can be intrinsic and extrinsic /28, p. 468/. They are frequently conditioned by the general approach to negotiation in an organisation as well as by the company's negotiation system itself and the extent to which it is sophisticated.


This approach, unfortunat
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Sorry, I don't know why this is happening, although I'm using Ctrl+V!
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Antonija
Win-win solutions, naturally, do not come unaided; they are usually the result of the negotiators' motivation, which can be intrinsic and extrinsic /28, p. 468/. They are frequently conditioned by the general approach to negotiation in an organisation as well as by the company's negotiation system itself and the extent to which it is sophisticated.
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