0 to attempt to decide on a price or conditions that are acceptable to the person selling the goods and the person buying them, usually by arguing:
It's traditional that you haggle over/about the price of things in the market.
2 to argue about the price of something in an attempt to make the seller reduce it:
haggle for sth They haggle for a rate or use Priceline to get into a full-service hotel rather than pay rock-bottom for lesser quality.
haggle with sb If you're a cash buyer, haggle with the dealer to get the best price and/or free extras.
haggle over/about sth The two clubs spent weeks haggling over the fee before finally reaching a deal.
Many car dealers will give you a sizeable discount if you are prepared to haggle.
I do not think that haggling in the sense in which it was referred to last time need trouble us any further.
Sometimes, when the element of haggling comes in, it is a distasteful task.
He has one of about £750,000, and they are haggling about whether it should be only £½ million.
Do not let us haggle, at this relatively late hour, over a comparative small number of pounds.
They agreed what it was that the haggling would have to be about.
Do let us have an end to all this haggling and boggling to which we have become accustomed in the last few years.
What haggles will now take place over the 'shortened period of liability'?
The negotiations of the last few days have proved that it was nothing but a laughable process of haggling.
