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The unions were negotiating with the management over pay.

ne • go • ti • a • tion / na|gouji ' eijn / noun

[ count, noncount ]

My salary is still under negotiation .

neigh / nei / verb ( neighs, neigh ing , neighed )

When a horse neighs , it makes a long, high sound. neigh noun [ count ]

neigh .bor © / neibar / noun [ count ]

a person who lives near you

Don't make so much noise, or you'll wake the neighbors. our next-door neighbors

a person or thing that is next to or near another The United States is Canada's neighbor.

Try not to look at what your neighbor is writing.

neigh • bor • hood / neibarhud / noun

[count]

a part of a town or city; the people who live there They live in a friendly neighborhood.

neigh • bor • ing / ' neibarig / adjective

near or next to

people from neighboring areas

nei .ther 1 Ф" / 'шбэг/ adjective, pronoun

not one and not the other of two things or people Neither book is very interesting. Neither of the boys was there.

nei .ther 2© / 'шбэг / adverb

also not

Lydia can't swim and neither can I. "I don't like rice." "Neither do I." neither ... nor not ... and not

Neither Paul nor I went to the party.

ne • on / ' nian / noun [ noncount ] ( symbol Ne )

a type of gas that is used in bright lights and signs

neph • eW / ' nefyu/ noun [ count ]

the son of your brother or sister —Look at niece .

nerd / nard / noun [ count ] ( informal )

a person who spends a lot of time on a particular interest and who is not popular or fashionable —SYNONYM geek

nerd • y / ' nardi / adjective

He looked kind of nerdy.

nerve © / поп / noun

[ count ] ( biology ) one of the long thin things inside your body that carry feelings and messages to and from your brain

nerves [ plural ] feelings of being worried or afraid John breathed deeply to calm his nerves .

[ noncount ] the state of being brave or calm when there is danger

You need a lot of nerve to be a race car driver. get on someone's nerves

to make someone feel a little angry

Stop making that noise — you're getting on my nerves!

nerve-rack • ing / ' narv |r®kig / adjective

making you very nervous or worried

It was a nerve-racking drive up the mountain.

nerv .OUS Ф / norms / adjective

worried or afraid

I'm nervous about starting my new job.

( biology ) connected with the nerves in your body the nervous system

nerv • ous • ly / ' narvasli / adverb

He laughed nervously, not knowing what to say.

nerv • ous • ness / ' narvasnas / noun [ noncount ]

He tried to hide his nervousness.

ner • vous break • doWn

/ |narvas ' breikdaun / ( also break • down ) noun [count] ( health ) a time when someone is so unhappy that they cannot live and work normally to have a nervous breakdown Suffix

-ness

( in nouns ) a state or quality of something

dark ness

happi ness

kind ness

sick ness

nest1 / nest / noun [ count ] ( biology )

a place where a bird keeps its eggs and babies Look at the picture at bird .

the home of certain animals or insects a wasps' nest

nest2 / nest / verb ( nests , nest • ing , nest • ed ) ( biology ) to make and live in a nest The ducks are nesting by the river.

net Ф / net / noun

[ count ] material that has large spaces between the threads; a piece of this material that we use for a particular purpose

a fishing net a tennis net

He kicked the ball into the back of the net.

Look at the picture at tennis .

the Net [ singular ] ( computers ) = the Internet net • Work aw щ / ' netwark / noun [ count ]

a number of things or people that form a single system or that are connected