Bargaining vs Haggle - What's the difference?
bargaining | haggle |
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The act of one who bargains.
* Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times (book 2, page 51)
To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
To hack (cut crudely)
* Shakespeare
* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
* Walpole
As verbs the difference between bargaining and haggle
is that bargaining is while haggle is to argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.As a noun bargaining
is the act of one who bargains.bargaining
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Verb
(head)Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining ". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
Noun
(en noun)- All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings , and blackmailings.
haggle
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Verb
- I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
- Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
- I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards sundown I started my camp fire and had supper. Then I set out a line to catch some fish for breakfast.
- Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.