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haggle

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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.

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noun

the act of haggling; wrangle or dispute over terms.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English haggen to cut, chop (< Old Norse hǫggva to hew) + -le

Related forms

hag·gler, noun

un·hag·gled, adjective

un·hag·gling, adjective

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EU governments haggle among themselves over the future of farm subsidies while candidate countries watch from the sidelines.

Their top priority is not to draw up coaches' contracts and haggle over how many courtesy cars a coach.

The prospect of a pay-off gives officials an incentive to haggle over regulations.

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EU governments haggle among themselves over the future of farm subsidies while candidate countries watch from the sidelines.

Their top priority is not to draw up coaches' contracts and haggle over how many courtesy cars a coach.

The prospect of a pay-off gives officials an incentive to haggle over regulations.

However, prices at the market aren't fixed, so don't be afraid to haggle.

No matter how valuable your merchandise or how reasonable your terms, there's always someone who wants to haggle.

Nina and the video crew zoom in on particular items and haggle over prices with store.

Your correspondent's grandfather taught him always to haggle.

Like used-car dealers, then, kidnappers fully expect that customers will haggle.

How ungrateful and even risky, they may feel, to haggle over salary when the unemployment.

In the past, two parties would haggle over a pound of wheat.

On the other hand, vendors were more willing to haggle on prices as the show wound down.

And the crowds of shoppers that fill many of them are young, ready to pay cash and not inclined to haggle over the sticker price.

Having said that, better be ready to haggle and haggle before you handover your baggage to the porter.

Now it is migrating to the service, attracting lawsuits and leaving users to haggle among themselves about what will be tolerated.

Just see what happens when you get a truly dreadful illness and your insurance company wants to haggle over the treatment.

After finding the perfect room, people still had to haggle with the hotel to actually get.

They'll haggle a price so you aren't flagged a rich foreigner who accepts the wrong price.

Buyers and sellers no longer must interact on exchange floors and haggle over prices.

To get a deal, don't be afraid to haggle the way you do when you buy a car.

And doctors have long had to haggle with commercial insurers over their rates.

Bargains can be had as long as you're prepared to haggle.

Maybe the two are one and the same, our way to parley and haggle with time.

Sometimes content owners and distributors even haggle over what to haggle about.

Hodges said, drivers would sometimes disable the light so they could cruise and haggle over prices.

It's also the best place to haggle for an inlaid backgammon set.

He tries to haggle over the price of a subway token.

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haggle (ˈhæɡ^əl)

—vb (often foll by over)
1.	to bargain or wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc); barter
2.	rare (tr) to hack

[C16: of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse haggva to hew]

'haggler

—n

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Word Origin & History

haggle

1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of haggen "to chop" (see hack (1)). Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away.

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"The debt was the most sacred obligation incurred during the war. It was by no means the largest in amount. We do not haggle with those who lent us money. We should not with those who gave health and blood and life. If doors are opened to fraud, contrive to close them. But don't deny the obligation, or scold at its performance."

-Rutherford Birchard Hayes

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