to argue about a price or other amount of money before reaching an agreement:
haggle over
• The Maine Legislature has been haggling over the state's budget for months.
— haggling noun [uncountable] :
• There was some haggling over the fee.
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haggling UK US /ˈhæɡlɪŋ/ noun [U]
► COMMERCE the act of arguing about the price of something in an attempt to make the seller reduce it: »
haggling over/about
haggling between sb/sth and sb/sth »Haggling between the company and investors over valuations will continue until the price is announced.
► the act of arguing about the details of something: haggling over/about sth »
Some of the member states find themselves involved in endless haggling about their voting rights within the EU.
»bureaucratic/political/public haggling
Financial and business terms. 2012.