(v. t.) To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood.
(v. i.) To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
(n.) The act or process of haggling.
Example Sentences:
(1) David, Marcelo and Simon are thrilled by the initial outpouring of support we’ve received from our fans and we’re excited about sharing our plans with the city, county and community soon.” The accord comes after almost 18 months of haggling with city lawmakers over the potential location, which had tested the patience of MLS officials and threatened to derail the hopes of an MLS franchise ever coming to the city.
(2) IMF officials are in Cairo, haggling with the Muslim Brotherhood government about the conditions of a proposed $4.8bn loan.
(3) His Freedom party is running at 31% in the most recent opinion poll, ahead of all other contenders, and he has spent most of this week at a secret location with Verhagen and Mark Rutte, the liberals' leader, haggling over the terms for a new coalition government.
(4) Months of political haggling will now begin as the nation is drastically reordered.
(5) With strict rules about hassling and haggling, it’s by far the most relaxing and tourist-friendly shopping experience in the city.
(6) With Twitter shares reportedly 30 times oversubscribed, by the time the haggling was over, they had been marked up to $45.10.
(7) He is condemned to survive by continuous haggling in a minority government.
(8) "I suspect some haggling is now going on between the IMF and the eurozone on how they can share the burden of a bigger programme," he said.
(9) Sticking point Many observers, including Douglas McCabe of Enders Analysis, suspect that this contract – rather than haggling over price – lies at the heart of negotiations between INM and Lebedev.
(10) Our passing let us down, we need more creative passing.” His hope that Ángel Di María, the Real Madrid winger, can provide some sophisticated deliveries remains on hold as the two clubs haggle over a fee.
(11) And on the campaign trail he declared: “If you can’t make a good deal with a politician then there’s something wrong with you.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest President ‘pulled out every stop’ to pass healthcare bill, Spicer says The haggling and horse trading over components of the American Health Care Act should be Trump’s forte.
(12) Against the backdrop of haggling that is taking place in Athens today officials say the issue of “a new [debt] haircut is definitely in the air.” “I think it would be fair to say that it is affecting the talks,” one official said.
(13) Haggling continued on Monday around Greek government plans over pensions, taxes and labour market reform.
(14) China agreed to waive all claims for compensation - instead of haggling over its population's right for recompense, Beijing settled for new bridges, dams and airports.
(15) Seven in 10 (69%) said this would make them spend more time considering deals or haggling with their current provider and 78% said this would prompt them to put more time into finding a deal that is better value for money.
(16) All the late-in-the-day haggling with the Liberal Democrats in the Lords clouded the scheme somewhat, but the basic intention remains – Monitor will set the ground rules for competition between hospitals, and the weak will be left to go to the wall.
(17) It was not then necessary for them to be on a trolley for hours while junior doctors haggled on the telephone or nurses were too busy to administer food, drink and bedpans.
(18) The Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, was swept to power nine weeks ago on an anti-austerity platform and ever since has been haggling with Brussels, the European Central Bank and the IMF over a cash-for-reforms deal to unlock €7.2bn in aid.
(19) Yet the haggling in the past fortnight has all been over that important principle, which surely should have been established at the outset.
(20) Be sure to haggle, as dealers generally drop their prices by 10-15%.
Wrangle
Definition:
(v. i.) To argue; to debate; to dispute.
(v. i.) To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate.
(v. t.) To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
(n.) An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the wrangling over the body continued, police extended their investigations at the Cambridge Tsarnaev family home.
(2) The final sprint comes after a year of wrangling in Congress, against a background of noisy public meetings and demonstrations.
(3) Sikorski's comments were, it appears, made before the current wrangling over commission nominations heated up and in the context of a specific disagreement on benefits policy.
(4) "The biggest complaint that business has against this government is that they don't have a long-term strategy for growth, and that they have created huge uncertainty," says shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna, who cites the coalition wrangling over the energy bill, finally published last week, as an example of the mixed messages the government has sent out.
(5) Attorney Adam Streisand said the deal was closed Tuesday morning following weeks of legal wrangling between the team’s previous owner, billionaire Donald Sterling, and his estranged wife, Shelly.
(6) After more wrangling, she managed to get him transferred to a civilian prison, where she could visit him every week.
(7) Even before it hosted the 1884-5 Berlin Conference at which European imperial powers wrangled for control of Africa, Germany had enthusiastically embraced the spirit of colonialism.
(8) Slowly she built up a picture of chimp life in all its domestic detail: the grooming, the food-sharing, the status wrangles, and the fights.
(9) We considered also viral and autoimmunity theory and the possibility that these two hypothesis don't wrangle but complete them.
(10) When the cumulative financial effects of the tax rises and spending cuts for 2013 are variously estimated as a drop in GDP of between 4% and 6%, wrangling over the government debt ceiling is not a good idea.
(11) The decision also comes as Washington wrangles with whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline to transport crude from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico.
(12) Republican leadership is frantically trying to wrangle support to open debate on repeal.
(13) But a committee is still wrangling over the constitution's makeup and a national vote on its formation is unlikely until late December – prompting concerns about when and how Egypt might return to electoral politics.
(14) I sure as hell don’t want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our internet.” Chris Christie , meanwhile, was unimpressed by Cruz and Rubio’s wrangling over the intricacies of legislation.
(15) After seven years of legal wrangling, and lobbying by the boys' families, France's highest court on Wednesday overturned a previous ruling saying the case against the police officers should be dropped.
(16) The procedural wrangling was, in fact, a cover for points of serious, substantive disagreement.
(17) Indicators of levels of drug use in Sweden, which has one of the toughest approaches we saw, point to relatively low levels of use, but not markedly lower than countries with different approaches.” Endless coalition wrangling over the contents of the report, which has taken more than eight months to be published, has ensured that it does not include any conclusions.
(18) The decision came after months of political wrangling which came to a head in June when two boats carrying refugees capsized north of Christmas Island within a week of each other, killing at least 90 people.
(19) That sparked more legal wrangling, which led to a court of appeal victory for the Guardian, which was again challenged by the government.
(20) This baseless scaremongering is beneath Lord Owen and the British people deserve better.” Owen’s intervention comes after a week of wrangling between the two sides about the NHS.