OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 17410

haggle

/ˈhæɡəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
recatear • regatear
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.
‘I am pretty useless at haggling. Haggling means asking the seller to sell stuff below the asking price.’
detener en pequeñeces
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.