haggle

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

haggles

V_ing/Gerund

haggling

V_ed/pp

haggled

1.
(intransitive)To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
2.
(transitive)To hack (cut crudely)
3.
To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.

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Đồng nghĩa

wrangle bargain chafferto argue for a better deal bargain, chaffer

Cùng gốc / liên quan

hagglerhiggle-haggleunhaggling wraggle

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Nguồn gốc từ

1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of Middle English haggen (to chop), variant of hacken (to hack), equivalent to hack + -le. Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away.