Definition of "palavering" []

• Present participle of palaver. (verb)

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• "In the palavering over the Greece bailout, an obstacle was the European Central Bank's insistence that nothing be done that might allow the ratings agencies to declare that Greece had defaulted on its debts—or at least not until the bank received taxpayer guarantees for its own holdings of Greek debt."
• "Lord, what a mess of meetings and palavering and influence-peddling and horse trading and litigation there's gonna be!"
• "So now you see Big Chief Wagon-Captain, standing before a party of assorted nomads, palavering away with a few halting Sioux phrases, but Wootton translating most of the time, while I nodded, stern but compassionate."