Chaffering

Definitions

The act of bargaining or haggling over a price.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“September 9, 1819, Washington Irving, letter to Henry Breevort You have⟳ put⟳ my writings into circulation, and arranged the pecuniary concerns in such a way as to save⟳ future trouble⟳ and petty chafferings about accounts, and to give⟳ the whole an independent and gentlemanlike air.”

“He had the practised face⟳ of a dealer also. But he was a Jew and chaffering was in his blood, and he said, "A bit stiff, isn't it? I mean⟳ without a guarantee⟳ that it's by the original maker?"”

“The air was all smell⟳ – curry-stuff, durian, fish⟳ and flesh – and the noise was of hoicking and chaffering.”

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