haggle

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

Meanwhile, she has been haggling with the insurer for months after getting an estimate of only $250 a square foot to rebuild her home, less than a third of the going rate.

Last year, after two weeks of acrimonious haggling, COP29 ended unhappily with developed nations agreeing to provide $300 billion a year in climate finance to developing ones by 2035, well below what is needed.

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.

Whatever happens on October 29, it will take months of haggling before a coalition government is formed in the country's highly fragmented political system.