haggling 1 of 2

present participle of haggle

haggling

2 of 2

noun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for haggling
Verb
  • The two players have been negotiating deals with Cincinnati to keep them with the organization for years to come.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The Bears didn’t wait long to make a big splash in the free-agency waters, zeroing in on the top available center and reaching a deal in the first half-hour of the NFL’s negotiating window.
    Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Nippon Steel has completed its $14.2 billion takeover of U.S. Steel, the company announced Wednesday, capping a year and half of fraught negotiations and resulting in a landmark deal for a president who originally opposed the deal.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2025
  • The Bulls will have the upper hand in any negotiation because Giddey is a restricted free agent, and because only one other team (Brooklyn) has significant cap space.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • For some bargaining units, like the California Association of State Attorneys and Administrative Law Judges, the change came less than a month after the union started bargaining a new contract with the state.
    William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2025
  • As Philadelphia systematically destroyed Kansas City on Sunday, Eagles fans were no doubt too … ebullient to pay much attention to the ads, while Chiefs supporters no doubt spent the commercial breaks bargaining with God or dousing themselves with Arthur Bryant‘s Barbecue Sauce for luck.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • There are other ways to lower your transaction costs, too.
    LEW SICHELMAN, Miami Herald, 26 June 2025
  • That rather leads the firm not just to be a systems of record and systems of transaction company (how the industry normally categorizes a core ERP player), but also a systems of operations specialist for real world factory floors.
    Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
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“Haggling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haggling. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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