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haggle
[hag-uhl]
verb (used without object)
to bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner.
They spent hours haggling over the price of fish.
to wrangle, dispute, or cavil.
The senators haggled interminably over the proposed bill.
verb (used with object)
to mangle in cutting; hack.
to settle on by haggling.
Archaic.to harass with wrangling or haggling.
noun
the act of haggling; wrangle or dispute over terms.
haggle
/ ˈæɡə /
verb
to bargain or wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc); barter
rare(tr) to hack
Other 51Թ Forms
- haggler noun
- unhaggled adjective
- unhaggling adjective
- ˈ noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of haggle1
Example Sentences
Since they haggle on behalf of health plans that collectively enroll hundreds of millions of Americans, these PBMs have considerable leverage, and should theoretically drive a hard bargain and win enormous discounts.
The deal with the EU seeks to smoothen frictions in trade, but there are a whole load of details and specifics, timeframes and costs still to be haggled over and sorted.
There will be talk of haggling, of fish, of sovereignty, of cash and of courts.
Negotiating - or to be more accurate - haggling over the "meat" of the summit will, I'm told, continue till the last moment.
The haggling would go on late into the night.
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