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Definition of chaffer in English: chafferverb ˈtʃafəˈtʃæfər [no object]Haggle about the terms of an agreement or price of something. 讲价钱，讨价还价 I chaffered in the bazaars for objects I wanted Example sentencesExamples - The U. S. State Department last week was chaffering with the French government on this matter.
- He had bought him in Sydney from a sailor for eighteen shillings and chaffered an hour over the bargain.
- We chaffered a good deal, but at last a bargain was struck.
- There in Costume House Street, which is Cardiff's Covent Garden, I held the pony while the woman chaffered over boxes of kippers and crates of oranges, sacks of potatoes and all the ingredients of her picturesque calling.
- He was choosing from my videoarchive the pieces he wanted to show, discussed with the visitors and chaffered with them.
Synonyms discuss terms, hold talks, discuss a settlement, talk, consult together, try to reach a compromise, parley, confer, debate
noun ˈtʃafəˈtʃæfər mass nounarchaic Haggling about the price of something. 讲价钱，讨价还价 Example sentencesExamples - There was its corn market down the main street, with hum of chaffering over open sacks.
- The liberal theory of the state, hostile to princes, rejects the princes’ greed for lands and chaffering in lands.
- From these I reached, by way of mitigation, my recent successful piece of chaffering, and put the letter to the dealer under both examination and cross-examination.
- Room is left for the ‘higgling of the market’, but, for Proudhon, this is no metaphor; he really means the higgling of the market, the chaffering in the village square between the man selling a cow and the man selling fodder.
- Kojima Productions indirectly answered all of this chaffering by giving players the ability to choose.
Derivativesnoun Among their most loyal customers are laborers who earn 40 rupees a day, hip college students and even business executives who send their chafferers to pick up bags bursting with burgers. Example sentencesExamples - He turned in an instant from an outraged gentleman to an anxious chafferer recommending his goods.
- On the further side were the venders and chafferers, - old women under awnings and big umbrellas, rickety tables piled high with fruit, white caps and brown faces, blouses, sabots, donkeys.
- Now, with the poverty of a Christian, Gregory is immersed in the bustle of a chafferer.
OriginMiddle English (in the sense 'trade or trading'): from Old English cēap 'a bargain' + faru 'journey'; probably influenced by Old Norse kaupfǫr. Rhymesgaffer, Jaffa, kafir, Staffa Definition of chaffer in US English: chafferverbˈCHafərˈtʃæfər [no object]Haggle about the terms of an agreement or price of something. 讲价钱，讨价还价 I chaffered in the bazaars for objects I wanted Example sentencesExamples - There in Costume House Street, which is Cardiff's Covent Garden, I held the pony while the woman chaffered over boxes of kippers and crates of oranges, sacks of potatoes and all the ingredients of her picturesque calling.
- We chaffered a good deal, but at last a bargain was struck.
- The U. S. State Department last week was chaffering with the French government on this matter.
- He had bought him in Sydney from a sailor for eighteen shillings and chaffered an hour over the bargain.
- He was choosing from my videoarchive the pieces he wanted to show, discussed with the visitors and chaffered with them.
Synonyms discuss terms, hold talks, discuss a settlement, talk, consult together, try to reach a compromise, parley, confer, debate
nounˈCHafərˈtʃæfər archaic Haggling about the price of something. 讲价钱，讨价还价 Example sentencesExamples - Kojima Productions indirectly answered all of this chaffering by giving players the ability to choose.
- There was its corn market down the main street, with hum of chaffering over open sacks.
- From these I reached, by way of mitigation, my recent successful piece of chaffering, and put the letter to the dealer under both examination and cross-examination.
- The liberal theory of the state, hostile to princes, rejects the princes’ greed for lands and chaffering in lands.
- Room is left for the ‘higgling of the market’, but, for Proudhon, this is no metaphor; he really means the higgling of the market, the chaffering in the village square between the man selling a cow and the man selling fodder.
OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘trade or trading’): from Old English cēap ‘a bargain’ + faru ‘journey’; probably influenced by Old Norse kaupfǫr. |