higgle

1 There is the higgling of the market in all business.

2 As a matter of fact each group or agent of production receives, not what it must receive, 61 but rather what it manages to secure in the higgling of the market.

3 We think of papa in his old fustian shooting-jacket, paying the laborers, and higgling about half a day to be stopped here, and a sack of meal to be deducted there.

4 I knew my master had fallen into despair when he took the herdsmen’s first offer without so much as a higgling nudge or a haggling speech.

5 At all events we 'd have higgled about the cost, and tried to get there as cheaply as might be.

6 So they higgled and haggled, but at last they gave him the three hundred roubles.

7 Well, you shall have it, madam: But I cannot higgle; I know you'll say it did not cost above two hundred pieces.

8 The agency by which this levelling or equilibrating process is carried out is competition, involving what Smith called the 'higgling of the market.'

9 We had learned the dread price, we had duly weighed the worth of the object to be purchased: what, then, was the use of hesitating and higgling?

10 Now, without any higgling and haggling about it, what I want is to sell, and that's my price.

11 Then the gipsy began higgling and haggling, but the man would not give way.

12 "This is only my third detection, and half of it voluntary, I might say, if I chose to higgle, which I scorn to do."

13 How heartless the Chinese, who, before they save a drowning man, first higgle about the reward, and take pleasure in pestilence, famine, etc., because those who survive profit by them.

14 Here ..." we read, "is room for any amount of 'higgling.'

15 Thus he faced about on his disjunctive conjunction, now this way, now that, until he had time to consider what was the very lowest figure he could offer as a basis for his higgling.

16 Freedom in markets.—In this higgling of the market it is absolutely necessary that buyers and sellers have essential freedom of choice and fairly equal information.

17 Sniggling, Wriggling Eels, and higgling Over the price Of a nice Slice Of fish, twice As much as it ought to be.

18 The captain still objecting, Astor, after a prolonged higgling, authorized him to buy a chronometer, and charge it to the ship's account; which was done.

19 Here, after considerable higgling, he succeeded in selling the shirt for sixteen cents, which was less than his companion had offered.

20 “With the short funds proposed, we shall fall miserably short,” Jefferson said, accusing legislators of “higgling” and failing to recognize “that knowledge is power.”

1 小贩

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2 争执

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3 讨价还价

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