Meaning

(intransitive) To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
2. (transitive) To hack (cut crudely)
3. To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.

Example Sentences

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.’

Last 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 $4.7 billion in Brazil.

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.

June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.

Word Forms

• haggles
• haggling
• haggled

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