Bid vs Haggle - What's the difference?
bid | haggle |
(medicine) Bis in die : twice a day, two times per day.
Commonly written as: "amoxicillin 500 mg BID ", read as: "amoxicillin totalling 500 milligram dosage (daily total), taken two times a day".
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
In transitive terms the difference between bid and haggle
is that bid is to offer as a price while haggle is to hack (cut crudely.In intransitive terms the difference between bid and haggle
is that bid is to make an attempt while haggle is to argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.As an initialism BID
is Bis in die: twice a day, two times per day.As a noun bid
is an offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.bid
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(Initialism) (head)Anagrams
* * ----haggle
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- 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.