chaffering

chaffering englanniksi

1. The act of bargaining or haggling over a price.

2. September 9, 1819, (w), ''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.

3. (quote-book)|publisher=Angus and Robertson|location=Sydney|page=158|passage=He had the practised face of a dealer also. But he was a Jew and chaffering was in his blood, and he said, "A bit stiff, isn't it? I mean without a guarantee that it's by the original maker?"

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