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 Translation for 'haggle' from English to Czech
VERB   to haggle | haggled | haggled
haggling | haggles
SYNO haggle | haggling | to chaffer | ...
to haggle {verb}smlouvat [nedok.]
to haggle {verb}handrkovat se [nedok.] [smlouvat]
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Translation for 'haggle' from English to Czech

to haggle {verb}
smlouvat [nedok.]

handrkovat se [nedok.] [smlouvat]
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Usage Examples English
  • Sellers looking to maximize profit but expecting would-be buyers to haggle may conversely make a "high-ball" offer and/or asking price.
  • Under Lansing's leadership, InfoSpace started an online auction website called haggle.com, but after one year the website was shut down and its remaining assets were sold to BigDeal.com.
  • Businessmen come and haggle over the ownership of the land but the squatters are left alone to live there.
  • The company invented a consumer-advocacy approach to selling cars "haggle-free" online, an approach it continues to employ.
  • Rogers Peet introduced several innovations into the men's wear business: they attached tags to garments giving fabric composition, they marked garments with price tags (the established practice was to haggle), they offered customers their money back if not satisfied, and they used illustrations of specific merchandise in their advertising.

  • In 1937 Max Frankenthal was arrested after allegations from German farmers in Friedeburg that he had attempted to manipulate the weighing scale in order to haggle the price of stock down.
  • For buyers, it is often possible to haggle on the price of watches, clothing and all counterfeit items.
  • Priceline got into the online auction business with "Priceline Yard Sales", where individuals would use the Priceline system to haggle for various second-hand items and trade them in person.
  • Scene II: Mordecai and Twang haggle over the costs of his imprisonment. Twang asks Mordecai to pay him ten shillings for tearing his black coat and six and eight pence for damaging his neck cloth.
  • The Saturn S-series is a family of compact cars from the Saturn automobile company of General Motors. Saturn pioneered the brand-wide "no-haggle" sales technique.

  • Miss Paisley was equally infamous, as Carrick had instructed her to haggle every farthing when shopping for food.
  • Fitzgerald has used no-haggle pricing since 1979 and it encompasses 20 dealerships across Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Florida that sell 20 different brands.
  • The term "regatta" is from Venetian "regata" ("contention for mastery"), from "regatare" ("compete, haggle, sell at retail"), possibly from "recatare".
  • La Chaveña is a working-class neighborhood, and it is characterized by the hundreds of discount shops known as "los Cerrajeros" (the Locksmiths) located in the area, specifically on the "Revolución" strip, where customers and merchants haggle in the most traditional market fashion on the prices of products and services.
  • It introduced features such as no-haggle pricing and a mail order catalog.

  • Before the late 19th century, in most cases, retail goods did not have a fixed price, and each customer would be expected to haggle with the store clerk.
  • She became old enough to take over shopping for her mother and began to haggle and barter for food bought with ration tickets and by any possible means.
  • The show is about young traders aged between eleven and fourteen attempting to negotiate and haggle when buying in order to get the best deals when selling products.
  • Bert tries to haggle by setting his watch back, but the executor is absolute: he gets nothing.
  • This particular scheme is known as badger gaming—an extortion tactic where an attractive woman lures a wealthy man into a compromising position; an associate breaks in, takes some pictures, then they all sit down to haggle over the price.

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    Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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