English-Spanish translations for haggle

• detener en pequeñeces
• regatear
  No es momento para que el Consejo se ponga a regatear sobre una cantidad de dinero tan pequeña. This is no time for the Council to haggle over what is a tiny amount of money.
  Tampoco es nuestro deseo regatear la financiación de los programas plurianuales que ya han sido aprobados. Neither do we wish to haggle over the financing of multi-annual programmes that have already been approved.
  Ahora bien, al Consejo sí le gusta regatear, y no tiene siempre en cuenta las necesidades reales. But the Council does like to haggle, and it does not always take the actual needs into consideration in the process.

Definition of haggle

• To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller
• To hack (cut crudely
• To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle

Examples

• I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.

Related words

• haggler
• haggling
• haggling over