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horse-trading

horse-trading is the alternative spelling of horsetrading.

Meaning of horsetrading

Noun

horsetrading (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) Informal negotiating, especially when complex or clever in nature.
    • Next Wednesday, four women and 15 men on the Crown Nominations Commission will gather for two days of prayer and horsetrading to replace Rowan Williams as archbishop of Canterbury.2012 September 20, Andrew Brown, “Archbishop of Canterbury succession race begins in earnest”, in The Guardian (online)

Questions about horse-trading

What is horse-trading the alternative spelling of?
Horse-trading is the alternative spelling of horsetrading.

Words near horse-trading in the dictionary

  1. horse-shoe vetches
  2. horse-stinger
  3. horse-stingers
  4. horse-trader
  5. horse-traders
  6. horse-trading
  7. horse-wain
  8. horse-wains
  9. horse-watcher
  10. horse-whispering
  11. horse-yard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horse-trading (page history and authors); horsetrading (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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