haggle
/ˈhæɡəl/ verb C1- 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.
- 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.
He/she/it haggles · Past haggled · Past participle haggled · -ing form haggling
Verb forms
- Base form
- haggle
- He/she/it
- haggles
- Past
- haggled
- Past participle
- haggled
- -ing form
- haggling
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