MEANING
To negotiate repeatedly over price or terms.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- haggle over a price
- haggle for hours
On the page
They haggled over the fee until the shop closed.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- haggle
- Past tense
- haggled
- Past participle
- haggled
- Present participle
- haggling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- haggle
- Present continuous
- am/is/are haggling
- Present perfect
- have/has haggled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been haggling
- Past
- haggled
- Past continuous
- was/were haggling
- Past perfect
- had haggled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been haggling
- Future
- will haggle
- Future continuous
- will be haggling
- Future perfect
- will have haggled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been haggling
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: haggle; haggles; haggled; haggled; haggling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character, dialogue. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: haggles.
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