What does chaffering mean?
Chaffering means The act of bargaining or haggling over a price..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The act of bargaining or haggling over a price..
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.
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?"
The air was all smell – curry-stuff, durian, fish and flesh – and the noise was of hoicking and chaffering.
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Chaffering means The act of bargaining or haggling over a price..
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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.
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