What's the difference between haggling and purchasing?

Haggling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Haggle

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%.

Purchasing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purchase

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
  • (2) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
  • (3) This study sought to determine if and why barriers to the over-the-counter purchase of syringes in the St. Louis metropolitan area might exist, given that no ordinance prohibits such a sale there.
  • (4) The government’s increase in the discount offered to tenants has prompted a massive increase in purchases of local authority accommodation.
  • (5) Following baseline, training consisted of teaching students to use a number line to make purchases.
  • (6) In the first experiment, mongrel and ddS mice produced under an unsatisfactory control of proximate environment were purchased, and acute toxicity tests of thiamine hydrochloride (B1HCl) and isonicotinic acid hydrazide (INAH) were practiced at two different conditioned rooms.
  • (7) Our fundamental market is 75% done,” he said last weekend, “and when we sign one midfield player that crucial work will be done.” The manager did not rule out further purchases, though.
  • (8) After a brief review of the range of monitoring accessories, the author considers the problem of their hospital standardization (various needs of the different hospital units, diversity of the monitors, existence of central purchasing departments, pressure from the treasurer's office).
  • (9) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
  • (10) Like many young Chinese, Hua often made purchases on Taobao, the country’s equivalent of eBay.
  • (11) Howard Archer of consultancy IHS Global Insight said: "Given the dominant role of the services sector in the economy, the steady growth in May reported by the purchasing managers is welcome news and supports hopes that it can avoid further contraction in the second quarter."
  • (12) The CML said the value of lending for house purchases was up by 8% year on year in May, at £9.4bn, while the number of loans grew by 5% to 53,800.
  • (13) Tesco uniforms can be bought through the supermarket's Clubcard Boost scheme, where £5 in Clubcard vouchers equals a £10 spend on clothing, while Asda is offering free delivery on uniform purchases of over £25.
  • (14) It's possible to go out and about, and not talk to anybody apart from the person you purchase goods from."
  • (15) The company is also making its VR games collection free to all purchasers of its headset.
  • (16) The FSA last month published a report by Professor Gerard Hastings which concluded that advertising to children does have an effect on their food preferences, purchasing behaviour and consumption, and that these effects occur not just at brand level, but also for different types of food.
  • (17) That would mark a controversial break from its existing policy, whereby the ECB offsets bond purchases by draining liquidity from the system in separate operations.
  • (18) The news website is run by journalist Carmen Aristegui, who in 2014 reported that Peña Nieto’s wife was purchasing a house with financing from a government contractor .
  • (19) For example, if we purchase new examination equipment without any consideration or if we decide what type of equipment to introduce according to the common advice of the purchase committee of the hospital or the medical school, then we cannot design an ideal system of laboratory examinations and are forced to invest a large sum of money in vain.
  • (20) The euro clawed back some losses after the European Central Bank said it would absorb €16.5bn from the money markets to compensate for bond purchases up to 14 May, and Greece said it would receive the first tranche of emergency loans tomorrow.

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