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Bargaining vs Haggle - What's the difference?

bargaining | haggle |

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

English

Verb

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  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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)
  • The act of one who bargains.
  • * Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times (book 2, page 51)
  • All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings , and blackmailings.

    haggle

    English

    Verb

  • To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
  • I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
  • To hack (cut crudely)
  • * Shakespeare
  • Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
  • 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.
  • To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
  • * Walpole
  • Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.

    Synonyms

    * (to argue for a better deal) wrangle

    Derived terms

    * haggler

    See also

    * (l)