haggle
Collocations
4ADJ.
later, over, small
VERB + HAGGLE
didn't, don't, know, teach, tried, try, wanted
HAGGLE + NOUN
shopkeeper
PREP.
down, with
Definitions
verb
To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
‘I am pretty useless at haggling. Haggling means asking the seller to sell stuff below the asking price.’
To hack (cut crudely)
Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards sundown I started my camp fire and had supper. Then I set out a line to catch some fish for breakfast.
To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
Wiktionary‘I am pretty useless at haggling. Haggling means asking the seller to sell stuff below the asking price.’
WiktionaryLast month, while officials from Washington and Beijing were haggling over whether to roll back tariffs that had brought their trade to a standstill, Chinese companies announced plans to invest about
WiktionaryDon't haggle over a small sum of money.
Tatoeba · #29129We can haggle over price later.
Tatoeba · #3147894Tom didn't haggle.
Tatoeba · #8935796