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Definition of Haggling
1. Noun. An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining).
Generic synonyms: Bargaining
Derivative terms: Haggle, Haggle, Wrangle
Definition of Haggling
1. Verb. (present participle of haggle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Haggling
1. haggle [v] - See also: haggle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haggling
Literary usage of Haggling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diplomatic Days by Edith O'Shaughnessy (1917)
"... birthday party—haggling over the prices of old Mexican frames—Za.pa.ia.
looms up—First glimpse of General Huerta—Romantic mining history of Mexico. ..."
2. Leaves of a Life: Being the Reminiscences of Montagu Williams by Montagu Stephen Williams, Percy Lefroy, George Henry Lamson (1890)
"... precautions, and haggling—Rob is returned—The " Family Kelic "—Two years
later : I prosecute my Shoreditch friend—He is staggered at the sentence. ..."
3. Through the Zulu Country: Its Battlefields and Its People by Bertram Mitford (1883)
"... unlucky warrior— Tall haggling—Midnight at Ulundi—A Golgotha. MY camp was
pitched within thirty yards of the site of the famous hollow square and about ..."
4. Duncan on Investment and Speculation in Stocks and Shares by William Wallace Duncan (1895)
"NO haggling. ONE great advantage that presents itself in dealing on the Stock
Exchange above dealing in any other market is that the prices paid for stocks ..."
5. Piccadilly to Pall Mall: Manners, Morals, and Man by Ralph Nevill, Charles Edward Jerningham (1909)
"... and decisive—no haggling or equivocations, no delay for verification or
inquiries; the whole thing, one way or the other, taking at most a quarter of an ..."
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