HAGGLE


Meaning of HAGGLE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

over

A great deal of time was spent haggling over prices for specific tasks.

The politicians, it seems, are still haggling over the emblem on the cover.

Omegna Market, at the northern end of Lake Orta, is a must if you want to haggle over souvenirs.

But it is still haggling over details.

■ NOUN

price

Bargaining, or haggling over a price , is still expected in most establishments.

A great deal of time was spent haggling over prices for specific tasks.

There was no haggling over price and no salesman to deal with.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

If you go to a street market, you'd better be prepared to haggle .

My mother used to spend hours haggling with the market traders.

The passenger haggled over the fare before she got into the taxi.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But this man wasn't haggling with him.

Go to the best studio your budget will allow and remember that studios will often drop their price if you haggle .

Merchants haggled in New York and Philadelphia.

My colleague was not prepared to haggle .

Otherwise they will have barely tried life under Maastricht before their mandarins must start haggling again.

The haggling among scientists continued, and seeing the project in disarray, Congress eventually cut off financing for the Mohole Project.

We came to the rooming house where Dean haggled with Camille.

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