haggle
To argue for a better deal, especially over prices between a buyer and sellerTo argue for a better deal, especially over prices between a buyer and seller.
Meaning
3 senses(intransitive)To argue for a better deal, especially over prices between a buyer and seller.
I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
feilschen, markten, schachern
торгова́тьсяtorgovátʹsja
торгува́тисяtorhuvátysja
(transitive)To hack (cut crudely)
To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
- wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
Examples
10 sentencesWe can haggle over price later.
ruМы можем сторговаться позже. — odexed
Tom didn't haggle.
Том не став торгуватися. — deniko
An Indian buyer and a Japanese businessman haggled over the price of the new product.
Do you know how to haggle?
deKannst du feilschen? — Pfirsichbaeumchen · CC BY 2.0 FR
Tom can teach you to haggle.
Translations
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Origin
1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of Middle English haggen (“to1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of Middle English haggen (“to chop”), variant of hacken (“to hack”), equivalent to hack + -le. Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away.
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Forms
haggles, haggling, haggled, haggledSynonyms
4 synonymsWord family
7 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle