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haggle
What does haggle mean?
haggle (verb): to argue for a better deal, especially over prices between a buyer and seller.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use haggle in a sentence?
- I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce haggle?
/ˈhæɡəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does haggle come from?
1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of Middle English haggen (“to chop”), variant of hacken (“to hack”), equivalent to hack + -le.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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to argue for a better deal, especially over prices between a buyer and seller
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