verb
haggle
HA-guhl
verb
1
To negotiate persistently over a price or deal.
"They haggled over the price of the rug for nearly twenty minutes."
"It's common to haggle at open-air markets."
How to Use Haggle
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishTo bargain back and forth to get a better price.
Common pairings
haggle over the price
haggle with a seller
Word Forms
haggled past tense, haggles singular
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Etymology
From the 1570s, originally meaning "to cut unevenly," a frequentative of Middle English haggen ("to chop"); the sense shifted to "argue over price" by around 1600.