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Haggler

Haggler \Hag"gler\ (h[a^]g"gl[~e]r), n.

  1. One who haggles or is difficult in bargaining.

  2. One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and dealer in London vegetable markets.

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haggler

n. A person who haggles.

WordNet
haggler

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.