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{{def|Negotiate|/nɪˈɡəʊʃɪeɪt/|v|File:Negotiable cow.jpg}}1. (''Archaic'') of a [[negotiable instrument]], such as a [[Albert Haddock|cow]], to transfer ones rights, title and interests in it to a third person by “endorsing” it.<br>
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2. Of an industry-standard master trading agreement, to spend six months communicating to your proposed counterparty your credit department’s view — which they will be unable to express for themselves, it being a matter of “legal [[verbiage]]” — that your firm will die in a ditch before accepting cross-acceleration or some similar concession the firm would in fact never in a million years use, and would not understand how to even if they wanted to.
[[File:Negotiable cow.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A [[Negotiable instrument]], yesterday.]]
}}1. (''Archaic'') of a [[negotiable instrument]], such as a [[Albert Haddock|cow]], to [[assign]] one’s rights, title and interests in it to a third person by “endorsing” it.<br>
2. Of an industry-standard [[master trading agreement]], to spend six months communicating to your proposed counterparty your [[credit department]]’s view — which they cannot bring themselves to express to your counterparty in person, it being a matter of “legal [[verbiage]]” that they, mere men and women of finance and not law are not qualified to “opine” — that your firm will [[I'm not going to die in a ditch about it|die in a ditch]] before accepting [[cross-acceleration]] or some similar concession the firm would in fact never in a million years use, and would not understand how to even if they wanted to.


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