Examples of haggle

• Where work varied within easily identified parameters, as in weaving, tables of rates were announced by proprietors, often after haggling with shop committees.

• Democracies thrive where people know how to bargain, to dicker, to haggle.

• At this stage, potential contracting parties can haggle over the division of the gains from trade that will issue from their contract, if it is made.

• Experts involved have suggested that less is spent nowadays on procedural matters, monitoring, and haggling with regional offices, whereas the costs for hiring consultants have gone up.

• The way to peace is never to be found as long as there is all this scrambling and haggling in this particular field.

• The word "market" among my colleagues seems to convey the idea of despicable people buying and selling, bartering and haggling.

• Neither do we wish to haggle over the financing of multi-annual programmes that have already been approved.

• The negotiations of the last few days have proved that it was nothing but a laughable process of haggling.

• What haggles will now take place over the 'shortened period of liability'?

• Do let us have an end to all this haggling and boggling to which we have become accustomed in the last few years.

• They agreed what it was that the haggling would have to be about.

• Do not let us haggle, at this relatively late hour, over a comparative small number of pounds.

• He has one of about £750,000, and they are haggling about whether it should be only £½ million.

• Sometimes, when the element of haggling comes in, it is a distasteful task.

• I do not think that haggling in the sense in which it was referred to last time need trouble us any further.