| 单词 | haggle |
| 释义 | haggle (once / 3721 pages) nv If you want a great deal on a used TV, then you can try to haggle with the sellers to see if they’ll bring the price down. To haggle is to negotiate or argue over something, usually a price. You can haggle at a flea market or anywhere where the price of items is flexible. But haggle doesn’t always refer to price. You can haggle over a job, a contract, or who gets to ride in the front seat. Haggling is relatively aggressive behavior, and this word is closer in meaning to wrangle than it is to negotiate. You’ll rarely hear of anyone haggling quietly. Haggle implies an argument in which both parties want the best deal for themselves. WORD FAMILYhaggle: haggled, haggler, haggles, haggling+/haggler: hagglers/haggling: hagglings USAGE EXAMPLESActually, I haggled my way to getting both the palm reading and a Tarot card reading for $30. New York Times(Dec 16, 2016) In the meantime structural reforms would be put off while Italy’s lawmakers haggle over voting systems. Economist(Dec 01, 2016) Google haggled for years with the previous antitrust commissioner, Joaquín Almunia, in an attempt to settle the probes against it. Wall Street Journal(Nov 16, 2016) 1n an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) Syn|Hyper haggling, wrangle, wrangling bargaining the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement 2v wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) Let's not haggle over a few dollars Syn|Hypo|Hyper chaffer, higgle, huckster bargain down, beat down persuade the seller to accept a lower price bargain, dicker negotiate the terms of an exchange |
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