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How to pronounce haggle in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms chaffer, higgle, huckster
Type of bargain, dicker
Has types bargain down, beat down
Derivation haggler, haggling


Let's not haggle over a few dollars.
Type Words
Synonyms haggling, wrangle, wrangling
Type of bargaining

Examples of haggle

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Professional negotiators take over to haggle and get the final deals in writing.
From the orlandosentinel.com
With a calculator between them, they haggle over the per-ton cost of fertilizer.
From the washingtonpost.com
If you haggle the car salesman down to a couple thousand below invoice, you win.
From the business.time.com
If it's low season and the hotel needs the trade, it will be willing to haggle.
From the telegraph.co.uk
I try to haggle down the $559 price of a two-seat sofa at PK Furniture in Albany.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Our starting point was the Khan el-Khalili Bazaar, where I did my best to haggle.
From the guardian.co.uk
It found only 40 per cent of customers who had tried to haggle got a better deal.
From the telegraph.co.uk
That leaves 129 where the city would have to haggle with private property owners.
From the sacbee.com
They don't want to haggle with potential buyers coming in with low-ball prices.
From the latimes.com
More examples
  • An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
  • Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's not haggle over a few dollars"
  • Bargaining or haggling is a type of negotiation in which the buyer and seller of a good or service dispute the price which will be paid and the exact nature of the transaction that will take place, and eventually come to an agreement. ...
  • Haggle is a party game designed by Sid Sackson and intended for a large number of players. It is rather complex and involved compared to many party games and, as a result, is often played only at gatherings of people who are known to enjoy gaming at other times.
  • To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller; To hack (cut crudely)
  • (Haggling (noun)) Bargaining, usually in a petty and confrontational manner.
  • (Haggling) A form of distributive negotiation. Haggling means to negotiate, argue, or barter about the terms of a business transaction, usually focussing on the purchase or selling price of a product or service. (Haggling)