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• n  an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
• v  wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
  Let's not haggle over a few dollars

• Think you should haggle only when buying a car or shopping in the streets of Morocco? In this recession, if you're not bargaining for everything everywhere, you're needlessly .
• Wander into any of the many mom-and-pop-style workshops, choose your weapon, haggle over the price of bullets or shells, and stroll out with the equipment into the bush.
• The Oriental haggle between Russia and Japan over the Chinese Eastern Railway reached the price stage last week.

• haggling
• wrangle
• wrangling
• higgle
• chaffer
• huckster

News & Articles

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• Is there room to haggle over the terms of a new-car lease?
  Q: Is there room to haggle over the terms of a new-car lease?
  June 14, 2013 - Louisville Courier-Journal
• Is there room to haggle over the terms of a new-car lease?
  Q: Is there room to haggle over the terms of a new-car lease?
  June 14, 2013 - Louisville Courier-Journal
• Miami-Dade Mayor Gimenez pushes to spend Dolphins windfall on elections equipment
  As county commissioners haggle over how to spend a cash windfall created by the Miami Dolphins’ failed attempt at a public referendum, the mayor is pressing to spend the money on elections equipment.
  June 10, 2013 - Miami Herald

Quotes

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• Ed Rendell in Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
  They don't want to see us haggle, they don't want to see us call each other names,Rendell said Monday. "They want to see us act."
• Deuce McAllister in USA Today
  Israel wants to haggle and suggest freezing 70% or 60% [of growth and construction] under the pretext that some buildings are already under construction. This is not our problem, and Israel must stop all settlement activities before we sit for... Mahmoud Abbas http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHxH2RtxP3CmkqTyVBiZNTNAmAzHw Ma'an News Agency http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx%3FID%3D223739&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHk65qmSzEz9Ohf1oTA9g7nWjcUIg Sep 5, 2009 44778 61230 haggle We give these people something to cheer about for three hours," McAllister said. "Something to think about instead of wondering are they're going to have to continue to haggle with their insurance people, are they going to have to continue...