单词	horse-trading
释义	horse-trading noun [mass noun] 1The buying and selling of horses.Appleby is famous around the world for its annual New Horse Fair, where gypsies and travellers from across the country and Europe gather for a week of horse-trading and celebrations. 1.1Hard and shrewd bargaining, especially in politics: we will win with no horse-trading or electoral pacts... 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. The argument used to be that additional budgets diminished the credibility of the main budget and the planning system in general since ministers could always indulge in further horse-trading throughout the year. But I suspect it's largely beside the point because once you're to that point you're into a process of legislative horse-trading and conference committees. Derivatives horse-trade verb ... Against this backdrop of dispersed, specific responsibilities, the French state horse-trades constantly with the private sector, happy to get private funding for the infrastructure or services it wants. Let's move to something he can horse-trade about, and that is immigration policy. They have horse-traded, and have come back and said: ‘No, 20 percent isn't enough, and we're not going to be silent.’ horse-trader /ˈhɔːstreɪdə / noun ... The current compromise there would have been impossible without experienced political horse-traders like Michael Somare and John Momis. There were few birth or marriage certificates, and when there were, the names were so strange: Lementeni Smith, his father a horse-trader, which should have set the bells ringing, but it didn't. Early on in Everything Holy, the poem ‘The Constitution of Stars’ begins ‘the moon has moved’ and goes on to track horse-traders back to the mythic age of elephants.
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