haggle

verb
🔊/ˈhæɡl/
🔊/ˈhæɡl/
[intransitive, transitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they haggle
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he / she / it haggles
🔊/ˈhæɡlz/
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past simple haggled
🔊/ˈhæɡld/
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past participle haggled
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-ing form haggling
🔊/ˈhæɡlɪŋ/
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  1. to argue with somebody in order to reach an agreement, especially about the price of something争论;(尤指)讲价
    • haggle over/about something I left him in the market haggling over the price of a shirt.我扔下他自己在市场上就一件衬衫讨价还价。🔊🔊
    • haggle with somebody over/about something We spent a long time haggling with the authorities over our visas.我们花了很长时间与签证当局讨价还价。
    • haggle something You can sometimes haggle a good discount.您有时可以讨价还价。
    • haggle something down (to something) I managed to haggle the price down to something more reasonable.我设法将价格讨价还价。
    Topics Opinion and argumentc2, Shoppingc2, Moneyc2
    Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘hack, mangle’): from Old Norse hǫggva ‘hew’.