haggle

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"They haggle, which is normal," says Sydney luxury car dealer Nasser Elkordi of the grim-faced sellers of once prized Porches and Range Rovers.

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  1. intransitive verb To bargain, as over the price of something; dicker: "He preferred to be overcharged than to haggle” (W. Somerset Maugham).
  2. intransitive verb To argue in an attempt to come to terms.
  3. transitive verb To cut (something) in a crude, unskillful manner; hack.

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  • If a retailer isn't prepared to haggle, then simply take your business elsewhere. —  Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • The haggle is also blocking the opening of EU accession talks with the country. —  EUobserver.com - Headline News
  • "Agents report that buyers are still in a position to haggle, and those buyers who do complete are determined to do so at what they perceive as a discount, hence the continued pressure on asking prices." —  The Latest From www.aboutproperty.co.uk
  • "They haggle, which is normal," says Sydney luxury car dealer Nasser Elkordi of the grim-faced sellers of once prized Porches and Range Rovers. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • He had come to be conscious through it all of strangely glaring at people when they tried to haggle--and not, as formerly, with the glare of derisive comment on their overdone humour, but with that of fairly idiotised surrender--as if they were much mistaken in supposing, for the sake of conversation, that he might take himself for saveable by the difference between sevenpence and ninepence. —  The Finer Grain
 

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Frequentative of dialectal hag, to chop, hack, from Middle English haggen, from Old Norse höggva; see kau- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Var. of hackle, freq. of hack, as hag for hack: see hackle, hack, hag.
  2. from haggle, v.
  3. from Middle English haʒelen, etc., hail: see hail, v.
 

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