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

I snagged the seats, breaking into a sweat over the cost but hopeful I could haggle with United later about who would pay for it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 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

Conversation would be nice, but the true reward would be the ability to haggle fluently and get my next two-headed skull for the same price as a normal one.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

It’s not going to be because she haggles over paragraphs in the bill.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2021

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

This vexed the patron, because one does not think the more of a person who haggles over a franc, especially if that person has studied cheapness in all ways during his visit.

From The Princess Passes by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

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

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2025

The deal with the EU seeks to smoothen frictions in trade, but there are a whole load of details and specifics, timeframes and costs still to be haggled over and sorted.

From BBC ● May 19, 2025

The fishmonger and I haggled over the sea bass.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2025

But the commission couldn’t access funding until May 2022, as the appropriation was held up while Congress haggled over larger issues in spending bills.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023

The house was furnished with broken tables and chairs she'd picked up off the street, and every service was haggled over.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Be prepared for haggling after the results themselves, mind.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

For a week, the pair price-shopped a dozen dealers, negotiating across several states and haggling for lower prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

The haggling may also be part of it.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2025

Jetten appointed Wouter Koolmees, head of national rail firm NS, as scout to lead the haggling.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

They begin haggling over a price like I've seen the women in jail do when someone has been able to smuggle in a thing from outside that everyone else wants.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman