Thesaurus results for HAGGLING

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noun

as in bargaining

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haggling

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verb

present participle of haggle

as in negotiating

to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase had to haggle to get his friend to sell his guitar for 20 bucks

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Recent Examples of haggling

Noun

After some spirited haggling at a public hearing, Star City Council members on July 7 approved a development plan for a commercial center on the northeast corner of Highway 44 between North Moyle Avenue and Plummer Road. — Noah Daly july 15, Idaho Statesman, 15 July 2026 No negotiating, no haggling, no surprises. — Rancho Santa Fe Review, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026 The haggling was still going on at deadline. — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026 This prospect adds urgency to the seemingly endless haggling among states along the river over a new agreement on sharing its water. — Mark Gongloff, Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2026 The Pentagon’s position was that all of this petty haggling was moot. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026 The funny part about the haggling and the desire to see his value on the open market was that Hendrickson’s value essentially landed at the same level where the Bengals placed it in recent years. — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026 That’s where the haggling would begin. — Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2026 That language was ultimately stripped from the bill in end-of-session haggling. — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025

Verb

There was haggling over the penalties connected to the bonus pool for skipping a tournament. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 25 July 2026 So why does buying B2B software still feel like haggling at a bazaar? — Salim Gheewalla, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 That’s not going to be the case when both sides start haggling over the details of a potential nuclear agreement. — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026 There was no price range used to gauge demand and no haggling with prospective shareholders. — Jordan Novet,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 13 June 2026 The countries can reduce vulnerability to these strategic chokepoints by building domestic capacities and diversifying supply chains—both of which take time—rather than haggling at the negotiating table. — Lee Williamson, Fortune, 13 May 2026 These are not two sides haggling over price. — Farah N. Jan, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2026 After weeks of haggling with authorities, Rex Pereira secured three emergency visas to leave the oil tanker where he had been stranded for over a month. — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 9 Apr. 2026 Airports across the country are bracing for another crush of weekend travelers as Congress keeps haggling over how to end the partial government shutdown that has driven mounting TSA staff shortages and the longest security wait times ever. — Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for haggling

Noun

The state and union reached tentative agreements on 13 issues, according to the PERB filing in which the union accuses state officials of bargaining in bad faith.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026
As a result, the merger will not increase the combined company’s bargaining power over the licensing of basic cable channels.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 28 July 2026

Definition of bargaining

Verb

Roughly 12 hours after LeBron announced his decision, longtime NBA reporter Chris Haynes broke the news that Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is negotiating a buyout with the Memphis Grizzlies and intends to join the Sixers once that's complete.

— Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
The operational targets for 2026 depend on executing the multi-stage plasma validation tests, establishing performance metrics, expanding patent protections, and negotiating initial power placement agreements with commercial partners.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 July 2026

Definition of negotiating

Noun

And while the ongoing lease negotiation is under entirely different circumstances, the move from the General Assembly has colored some of the conversations now.

— DJ Simmons July 27, Charlotte Observer, 27 July 2026
Port of Oakland officials are expected to decide in the fall whether to enter negotiations with the franchise.

— Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 26 July 2026

Definition of negotiation

Noun

Such a transaction would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars even before tacking on a deal premium, and the incumbent carriers are generally not seen as sellers.

— Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 29 July 2026
As part of that deal, Paramount agreed not to close the $111 billion transaction until five days after a trial is held or June 1, 2027, whichever is earlier.

— Brent Lang, Variety, 29 July 2026