Haggle vs. Barter — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Haggle and Barter
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Haggle
Dispute or bargain persistently, especially over the cost of something
The two sides are haggling over television rights
Barter
In trade, barter (derived from baretor) is a system of exchange in which participants in a transaction directly exchange goods or services for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money. Economists distinguish barter from gift economies in many ways; barter, for example, features immediate reciprocal exchange, not one delayed in time.
Haggle
A period of haggling
An inevitable and lengthy haggle over compensation
Barter
Exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money
He often bartered a meal for drawings
They were able to buy or barter for most of what they needed
Haggle
To bargain, as over the price of something; dicker
"He preferred to be overcharged than to haggle" (W. Somerset Maugham).
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Barter
The action or system of bartering
Paper money ceases to have any value and people resort to barter
Haggle
To argue in an attempt to come to terms.
Barter
To trade goods or services without the exchange of money.
Haggle
To cut (something) in a crude, unskillful manner; hack.
Barter
To trade (goods or services) without the exchange of money.
Haggle
(Archaic) To harass or worry by wrangling.
Barter
The act or practice of bartering.
Haggle
An instance of bargaining or arguing.
Barter
Something bartered.
Haggle
(intransitive) To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
Barter
Of, relating to, or being something based on bartering
A barter economy.
Haggle
(transitive) To hack (cut crudely)
Barter
An exchange of goods or services without the use of money.
We had no money so we had to live by barter.
Haggle
To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
Barter
The goods or services used in such an exchange.
The man used his watch as barter to pay for his tab.
Haggle
To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood.
Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er,Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
Barter
(ambitransitive) To exchange goods or services without involving money.
She bartered a bonsai for one of the rare books in my library.
You may be able to barter for some of the items you need at the local market.
Haggle
To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
Barter
To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.
Haggle
The act or process of haggling.
Barter
To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; - sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.
Haggle
An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
Barter
The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.
The spirit of huckstering and barter.
Haggle
Wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.);
Let's not haggle over a few dollars
Barter
The thing given in exchange.
Barter
An equal exchange;
We had no money so we had to live by barter
Barter
Exchange goods without involving money
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