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US
/ˈhæɡəɫɪŋ, ˈhæɡɫɪŋ/
]
[ UK /hˈæɡlɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /hˈæɡlɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
How To Use haggling In A Sentence
- After a good deal of haggling he bought it and loaded it straight onto a ship sailing south. THE FROZEN WATER TRADE
- After much haggling and horse-trading, a compromise is hammered out that satisfies few but allows each minister to claim that it could have been much worse.
- We are all aware that the Obamas have a wonderful marriage, and his uxoriousness is the talk of all the women's magazines; but is she really influential when it comes to surging in Afghanistan; bombing Iran; and the political haggling over taxes? Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- So back and forth went the stiff haggling till we reached a compromise.
- Still, there must be no haggling; in ecclesiastical language 'ten' means ten beads; no doubt ... but I remember very well that after he pronounced the word rosary, the father expressed himself thus: 'you will say ten,' that means ten rosaries, for otherwise he would have specified ten ... of a rosary. En Route
- Companies can sublicense our music for commercial use using our no haggling, easy online forms.
- The denial of ‘political’ agendas is a standard trope, especially under authoritarian regimes where the word connotes divisive haggling against the interests of the united people.
- He was very confused, but then, when light dawned, he took much glee in pointing out I'd paid the exact same amount as I would have before my haggling.
- Now Pennsylvania governor, Ed Rendell, and medical teams flew to Haiti yesterday to try and evacuate these orphans, and his office says they ran into what they called haggling over paperwork at the embassy. CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2010
- Most travel companies are accustomed to haggling over prices with each other.