Chaffering
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chaffering is a noun meaning The act of bargaining or haggling over a price.
Meaning
The act of bargaining or haggling over a price.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of chaffer
Example Sentences
The air was all smell – curry-stuff, durian, fish and flesh – and the noise was of hoicking and chaffering.
He had the practised face of a dealer also. But he was a Jew and chaffering was in his blood, and he said, "A bit stiff, isn't it? I mean without a guarantee that it's by the original maker?"
September 9, 1819, Washington Irving, letter to Henry Breevort You have put my writings into circulation, and arranged the pecuniary concerns in such a way as to save future trouble and petty chafferings about accounts, and to give the whole an independent and gentlemanlike air.
Word Forms
- chafferings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dicker, haggle, higgle, visit, huckster, confab.
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