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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
/ ˈhæɡəl /
verb
- introften foll byover to bargain or wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc); barter
- rare.tr to hack
Derived Forms
- ˈhaggler, noun
Other Words From
- haggler noun
- un·haggled adjective
- un·haggling adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of haggle1
Example Sentences
Haggle over the numbers and details, attack the Senate for their failure to pass a budget, and then cut the best deal possible.
Finally, the Hagel haggle highlighted a critical lesson for the pro-Israel community.
The Republican rep wants lawmakers to extend the Bush tax cuts, and haggle over the rest later.
We're just left to haggle over price: Should the successful pay forward 36% of their success or 39% or 28% or what.
He would haggle in a bargain for a shilling, and economize in things beneath a wise man's notice or consideration.
After he had married her, he'd sell out this pile of junk and let somebody else haggle with the Injuns and cowpunchers.
To have to refuse one who has made you a gift of her beauty a trifling article; to haggle over such matters, like a miser!
Hence there was time for the United States to consider the question of a purchase and to haggle a little over the price.
Otherwise people would get silly ideas and begin to haggle over the price.
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