unnegotiableadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnnᵻˈɡəʊʃ(ɪ)əbl/, U.S. /ˌənnəˈɡoʊʃ(i)əb(ə)l/ Not negotiable (in various senses).
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1771 T. Bridges Adventures of Bank-note IV. iii. 31 He never set his eyes on such an unnegotiable piece of paper.
1839 Sporting Rev. Mar. 164 The jumps..were unnegotiable; at least such as not one man in a hundred would take with hounds running.
1893 F. F. Moore I forbid Banns xli. 296 Discoveries of an interesting but unnegotiable nature.
1913 Rotarian Dec. 51/1 What chance of success would the cashier of a bank have, if every time he refused to lend money on worthless or unnegotiable security, the offended bank stockholder would petition for his removal?
1963 P. Windsor City on Leave x. 224 Kennedy was soon forced to define the vital interests of the West, which he considered unnegotiable.
2006 CSO Feb. 48/2 An unnegotiable skein of rules.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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