NOUN
- the swapping of horses (accompanied by much bargaining)
- negotiation accompanied by mutual concessions and shrewd bargaining
How To Use horse trading In A Sentence
- It would seem as though the historical monopoly on information previously enjoyed by real estate brokerages is starting to disappear, and the profession will involve less horse trading, and there will be a fewer number of more highly qualified and scrupulous agents adding value as advocates to real estate deals, paid not out of the proceeds – which I consider a real conflict of interest – but for their time. Real estate agents are next « BuzzMachine
- But after weeks of horse trading and public pronouncements, the contours of a deal were said to be emerging just hours before the midnight deadline. Times, Sunday Times
- After the president's midterms humbling, the US media envision horse trading, vetoes – and a legislative logjam Barack Obama facing two years of political gridlock