0 to have unofficial discussions in which people make agreements that provide both sides with advantages:
She understood that you can't always have everything you want and that you have to horse-trade sometimes.
He constantly had to horse trade to get results.
He was widely believed to have horse-traded with the paper's editor.
It would be better if we horse-traded, because that really is how business gets done.
In other democracies, they figure out how to horse trade and compromise.