HAGGLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does haggling mean? 

• HAGGLING (noun)
  The noun HAGGLING has 1 sense:

1. an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)

  Familiarity information: HAGGLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAGGLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

haggle; haggling; wrangle; wrangling

Hypernyms ("haggling" is a kind of...):

bargaining (the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement)

Derivation:

haggle (wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.))

 Context examples 

Neither one nor t'other; I might have got it for less, I dare say; but I hate haggling, and poor Freeman wanted cash.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)