Haggle



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 讨价还价
• ［英］ v. 讨价还价 ( to argue about price; bargain)
• ［例］ haggle over prices

Webster Collegiate

I. verb (haggled; haggling)

• Etymology: frequentative of hag to hew
• Date: 1599
• transitive verb
  • 1. to cut roughly or clumsily ; hack
  • 2. archaic to annoy or exhaust with wrangling
• intransitive verb
  • bargain, wrangle <haggling over the price>
• ? haggler noun

II. noun

• Date: 1858
• an act or instance of haggling

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