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haggle

/hag-uhl/US // ˈhæg əl //UK // (ˈhæɡəl) //

讨价还价,讲价,锱铢必较,砍价

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    hag·gled, hag·gling.

    • : to bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner: They spent hours haggling over the price of fish.
    • : to wrangle, dispute, or cavil: The senators haggled interminably over the proposed bill.
v.有主动词 verb
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    hag·gled, hag·gling.

    • : to mangle in cutting; hack.
    • : to settle on by haggling.
    • : Archaic. to harass with wrangling or haggling.
n.名词 noun
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    • : the act of haggling; wrangle or dispute over terms.

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Examples

  • Haggle over the numbers and details, attack the Senate for their failure to pass a budget, and then cut the best deal possible.

  • Finally, the Hagel haggle highlighted a critical lesson for the pro-Israel community.

  • The Republican rep wants lawmakers to extend the Bush tax cuts, and haggle over the rest later.

  • We're just left to haggle over price: Should the successful pay forward 36% of their success or 39% or 28% or what.

  • He would haggle in a bargain for a shilling, and economize in things beneath a wise man's notice or consideration.

  • After he had married her, he'd sell out this pile of junk and let somebody else haggle with the Injuns and cowpunchers.

  • To have to refuse one who has made you a gift of her beauty a trifling article; to haggle over such matters, like a miser!

  • Hence there was time for the United States to consider the question of a purchase and to haggle a little over the price.

  • Otherwise people would get silly ideas and begin to haggle over the price.