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

All that hoopla results in a heavy lift for news networks and involves haggling over the real estate for anchor booths and transmission facilities. — Daniel Strauss, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026 Former executive chairman Daniel Levy had a reputation for haggling over deals, sometimes allowing rival clubs to steal transfer targets from them. — Jay Harris, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026 The 1967 drama is about estranged brothers who are forced to deal with each other while haggling over the sale of their recently deceased father’s furniture to a dealer. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2026 Months of haggling for replacements brought more frustration until July. — Larry Seward, CBS News, 30 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for haggling

Noun

Trump has also allowed limited sales of Nvidia's H200 AI chips to China even as broader restrictions remain in place, making semiconductor access another bargaining point.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026
Stress-test scenarios for supplier concentration, co-invest in joint planning and innovation and keep at least one alternative source viable to preserve bargaining power.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of bargaining

Verb

Blizzard insinuated that Paramount blackmailed California into negotiating a settlement by threatening to leave the state, a common talking point raised by Bonta.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2026
Continuing to fight or pressure Iran economically is unlikely to yield a better outcome than negotiating.

— RICHARD HAASS, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of negotiating

Noun

On the last day of negotiations, the talks turned aggressive.

— Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2026
Representatives from the three countries held three rounds of trilateral negotiations early this year, twice in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, and once in Geneva, but the talks achieved no significant breakthroughs.

— HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of negotiation

Verb

The inquest testimony about Lizzie’s attempt to purchase prussic acid was also excluded, dealing another major blow to the prosecution.

— Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
One hundred years ago, one of the most destructive hurricanes in South Florida history roared ashore, devastating communities, killing hundreds and dealing an economic blow that some historians say took the region decades to fully overcome.

— Hank Tester, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of dealing

Noun

One advisor simply moves more transactions through the same funnel.

— Lital Marom, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
The Justice Department and FCC have approved the transaction without asking for any concessions or remedies — an unusually hands-off approach for such a large horizontal merger.

— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 21 Sep. 2026