chaffering
chaffering noun: the act of bargaining or haggling over a price. Also the present participle and gerund of chaffer.
Noun
chaffering (countable and uncountable, plural chafferings)
- The act of bargaining or haggling over a price.
- 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. - 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?"1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 158
- September 9, 1819, Washington Irving, letter to Henry Breevort
Also used as
chaffering is also the present participle and gerund of chaffer.
Forms of chaffering
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Questions about chaffering
- What does chaffering mean?
- Chaffering means the act of bargaining or haggling over a price.
- What part of speech is chaffering?
- Chaffering is a noun.
- What is the plural of chaffering?
- The plural of chaffering is chafferings.
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