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Hard bargain driver
Answer for the clue "Hard bargain driver ", 7 letters:
haggler
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Word definitions for haggler in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haggler \Hag"gler\ (h[a^]g"gl[~e]r), n. One who haggles or is difficult in bargaining. One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and dealer in London vegetable markets.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person who haggles.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an intense bargainer
Usage examples of haggler.
I am told that the grown-up maimers and cheats in the world are only children soiled, that the hagglers of commerce are the infant dreamers whose dreams were denied.
In former times, prior to your acquisition of a monopoly over this industry, the desirous voyager was beset by impudent hagglers, each offering a different service for a different fee.
And there was no way his subject could elude him in his endless disguises as a poor camel driver or a rich Damascus merchant, a harmless haggler over pimpernel or a desert collector of sorrel and similar spring herbage, an obsessed dervish given to trances and an inscrutable hakim or healer, dispensing quinine and calomel and cinnamon water, a few grains of rhubarb and one of laudanum.