haggled; haggling
ˈha-g(ə-)liŋ 
: an act of negotiating or arguing over the terms of a purchase, agreement, or contract : an instance of haggling or bargaining
a haggle over price
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Verb
She is good at haggling.
had to haggle to get his friend to sell his guitar for 20 bucks
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Brad Dress, The Hill, 18 Jan. 2025
The deliberations, as mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, are meant to help people on Medicare afford their medications by allowing the government program to directly haggle over prices with drugmakers.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
After previously traveling through villages ethnically cleansed by the military and ethnic Rakhine mobs, the display of regular Rohingya life — men strolling to the mosque, women haggling over fish, children playing on cellphones — felt like a mirage.
—Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
The implications of what has transpired over the last four months of haggling are magnified by the murky shape of media with cable in decline, streaming emerging, free broadcast networks, like NBC, born again as the top sports destinations, and uncertainty constant.
—Andrew Marchand, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
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Verb
The contours of the ceasefire deal struck this week were largely the same as those Biden announced in May 2024, after months of haggling between and Israel and Hamas over reaching another deal following a brief November 2023 truce that freed some 100 hostages.
—Brad Dress, The Hill, 18 Jan. 2025
The deliberations, as mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, are meant to help people on Medicare afford their medications by allowing the government program to directly haggle over prices with drugmakers.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
After previously traveling through villages ethnically cleansed by the military and ethnic Rakhine mobs, the display of regular Rohingya life — men strolling to the mosque, women haggling over fish, children playing on cellphones — felt like a mirage.
—Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
The implications of what has transpired over the last four months of haggling are magnified by the murky shape of media with cable in decline, streaming emerging, free broadcast networks, like NBC, born again as the top sports destinations, and uncertainty constant.
—Andrew Marchand, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
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“Haggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/haggle. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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