Definition of "chaffering" []

• Present participle of chaffer. (verb)

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• "Humanity has altered the usual course of affairs, and by a strange kind of chaffering, but one which truly becomes a King, just when the famished peasant is willing to offer us an enhanced price for food, we are directed to offer it to him for a smaller one."
• "In the end, after three hours more of chaffering, they came to an agreement."
• "Pedlers were backing their wagons to the edge of the wharf, and from the bargaining and chaffering that went on, I managed to learn the selling price of the oysters."