1
as in dealing
to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase
in that country you're expected to chaffer with the vendors at the bazaar
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2
as in chatting
British
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
just a couple of blokes chaffering at the neighborhood pub
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After chatting to a voice LLM chatbot like ChatGPT, going back to trying to have a conversational user experience with Alexa (or Siri, or whoever) is frustrating.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025 -
Brown suggested allowing for photos and videos to be shared, and adding video-chatting capabilities.—
James Watson,
Hartford Courant,
12 Apr. 2025
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The two players have been negotiating deals with Cincinnati to keep them with the organization for years to come.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
15 Mar. 2025
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Sotheby’s and Pace Gallery are currently negotiating over a deal that would see the auction house make a significant investment in the mega-gallery.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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For some bargaining units, like the California Association of State Attorneys and Administrative Law Judges, the change came less than a month after the union started bargaining a new contract with the state.—
William Melhado,
Sacramento Bee,
5 Mar. 2025
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As Philadelphia systematically destroyed Kansas City on Sunday, Eagles fans were no doubt too … ebullient to pay much attention to the ads, while Chiefs supporters no doubt spent the commercial breaks bargaining with God or dousing themselves with Arthur Bryant‘s Barbecue Sauce for luck.—
Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2025
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The dream part of it, for him, was the chance to spend 100 minutes talking not very much about his passion project itself, but rather using it as a springboard for an infinitely widespread discussion about about political, economic and social ideals.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
3 Jan. 2025
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Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more!—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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“Chaffering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaffering. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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