haggle

Emphasize that it would be better for them to be present — not only to help you, but also to haggle with shoppers and ensure their items are selling for prices they feel are appropriate.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

It’s an imperfect analogy, but a company can’t sell the U.S. military a missile and then haggle about acceptable targets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

In the midst of Belém’s COP30 bedlam, environmentalists, economists, lobbyists and diplomats busily haggle at the global climate conference about what we can and cannot get away with in negotiations over Mother Nature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025

In short: months and months of talking, as party leaders try to form a workable coalition and haggle over a government programme palatable to all sides.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025

I watch in silence as they haggle in Urdu over the price of something I don’t want.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

In “Between Riverside and Crazy,” a Black man haggles over the concessions he’s being offered by his former employer, the New York Police Department, eight years after he was shot by a white cop.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2023

He haggles with a supermarket cashier, admires the paved roads, poses with a power mower to impress a cousin back home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2021

McGee notes that Washington often haggles as all sides try to cut a deal.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 1, 2020

The markets are always a necessary visit, and it helps that he speaks Cantonese and haggles for me.

From The Verge ● Dec. 15, 2017

Well, in future, just order him to do what you like, and just as if you were landlord, in fact; and if the old man haggles, write to me, and I'll blow him up.

From Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles Kingsley

A white-haired man in a Tommy Bahama shirt amiably haggled two dollars off his peaches.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

He has haggled about the price, which makes my brother think it’s a legit offer.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2025

While one hardcover copy of Cook’s latest novel costs the library $18, it costs $55 to lease a digital copy – a price that can’t be haggled with publishers.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

When he collected the sweets from the wholesaler, he noticed they were darker than unusual so he haggled with confectioner Joseph Neal and saved half a penny per pound.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2023

She would notice that the sunshine cake was too haggled to put before him and decide on a rennet dessert.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Yet his attitude of constant haggling over everything that isn’t nailed down, and some things that were supposed to be, isn’t helpful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

The grandson of a carpet merchant, he likened negotiations to bargaining in the Iranian bazaar, where endless haggling using different arguments brings results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

Car boot sales are full of customers haggling for the best deal, where you "price something for £1.50 but people want it for £1", traders have said.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026

The haggling may also be part of it.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2025

Today, someone else was in it, haggling with a buyer over a mound of fat prawns.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook