Chaffering
noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of bargaining or haggling over a price. countable, uncountable
"September 9, 1819, Washington Irving, letter to Henry Breevort You have put my writings into circulation, and arranged the pecuniary concerns in such a way as to save future trouble and petty chafferings about accounts, and to give the whole an independent and gentlemanlike air."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of chaffer form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"September 9, 1819, Washington Irving, letter to Henry Breevort You have put my writings into circulation, and arranged the pecuniary concerns in such a way as to save future trouble and petty chafferings about accounts, and to give the whole an independent and gentlemanlike air."
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