Thesaurus results for HORSE-TRADE

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verb

as in to negotiate

to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase I horse-traded with the painter: I did his tax returns, and he did my kitchen

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Noun

The rising profile of McHenry and Emmer is likely bullish for crypto bills, as both work to convince Democrats on their committee—and their counterparts over in the Senate—to horse trade over stablecoin and market structure legislation. —

Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 4 Oct. 2023 The blandishments McCarthy might have offered to horse trade his way to the speakership — fancy titles, perks, a fundraising appearance — meant little to those Republican holdouts who would like nothing more than to burn Washington to the ground. —

Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023 Congress, by contrast, can hold wide-ranging hearings, issue subpoenas, survey and even commission empirical research, weigh fiscal trade-offs, consider constituent popularity, balance different values and interests, horse trade, negotiate, and forge compromises. —

Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022 Krikorian, from the restrictionist Center for Immigration Studies, argued DACA recipients could have gotten green cards by now, if Democrats had been willing to horse trade for tougher enforcement. —

Dallas News, 18 July 2022 In the early 1960s, the bistate agency took over what was then the struggling Hudson and Manhattan Railroad as part of a horse trade between New Jersey and New York that committed the Port to build the first World Trade Center. —

Paul Berger, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018 And Paul George finally escaped Indiana, albeit to a dark-horse trade partner in the Oklahoma City Thunder. —

Peter Dawson and Pdawson@star-Telegram.com, star-telegram, 13 Dec. 2017

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Verb

At the time, Epstein was serving his 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County stockade but was allowed to spend 12 hours a day, six days a week, in his office under a work-release program his attorneys had negotiated.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
Spice levels are negotiated with shorthand, on a scale from one to five.

— Timothy DePeugh, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026