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haggle
[
hag
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uh
l
]
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Origin
hag·gle
/
ˈhæg
əl
/
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[
hag
-
uh
l
]
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verb,
-gled,
-gling,
noun
verb (used without object)
1.
to bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner:
They spent hours haggling over the price of fish.
2.
to wrangle, dispute, or cavil:
The senators haggled interminably over the proposed bill.
verb (used with object)
3.
to mangle in cutting; hack.
4.
to settle on by haggling.
5.
Archaic
.
to harass with wrangling or haggling.
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noun
6.
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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Example Sentences
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.
COLLAPSE
Collins
World English Dictionary
haggle
(ˈhæɡ
ə
l)
—
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
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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