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HAGGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does haggle mean? 

HAGGLE (noun)
  The noun HAGGLE has 1 sense:

1. an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)play

  Familiarity information: HAGGLE used as a noun is very rare.


HAGGLE (verb)
  The verb HAGGLE has 1 sense:

1. wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)play

  Familiarity information: HAGGLE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HAGGLE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

haggle; haggling; wrangle; wrangling

Hypernyms ("haggle" is a kind of...):

bargaining (the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement)

Derivation:

haggle (wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.))


HAGGLE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they haggle  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it haggles  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: haggled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: haggled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: haggling  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

chaffer; haggle; higgle; huckster

Context example:

Let's not haggle over a few dollars

Hypernyms (to "haggle" is one way to...):

bargain; dicker (negotiate the terms of an exchange)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "haggle"):

bargain down; beat down (persuade the seller to accept a lower price)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

Sam and Sue haggle
Sam wants to haggle with Sue

Derivation:

haggle (an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining))

haggler (an intense bargainer)

haggling (an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining))


 Context examples 


Neither one nor t'other; I might have got it for less, I dare say; but I hate haggling, and poor Freeman wanted cash.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But there are ale, mead, and wine in the buttery, and the steward a merry rogue, who will not haggle over a quart or two.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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