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# haggle

«haggle» in Mova's school dictionary: **to argue over a price, each side trying to pay less or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (haggle, haggles, haggled, haggling)

### meaning for a pupil

To haggle is to argue over a price, each side trying to pay less or get more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haggle/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a customer and a seller bargain over the price of goods

### examples

- The farmer and the trader haggled for an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haggle/#x1)
- Mum always haggles at the market. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haggle/#x2)
- They haggled, but at last they paid three hundred roubles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haggle/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; the amount is agreed by arguing, and the word itself works out no sum

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «haggle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haggle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.