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chaffer

verb

Definition of chaffer

as in to deal

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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as in to chat

British to engage in casual or rambling conversation just a couple of blokes chaffering at the neighborhood pub

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If Cease and the rotation keep dealing and Louis Varland and the bullpen can survive one more month, any offensive revival would make the Jays a real threat.

— Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Detectives suspected that members of a Black gang, the Original Valley Gangster Crips, killed him in an attempt to wrest control of the drug dealing hub.

— Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of deal

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Newsom, who chatted with lawmakers at the Capitol on Monday in what will be his last regular legislative session as governor, praised Lowenthal and the bill.

— Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
During the 2013 season, the 49ers lost in the NFC Championship game to the Seattle Seahawks – the team that would bring him in for his only meeting during the 2017 offseason to chat about potentially signing.

— Scott Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of chat

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However, your customers should never feel like their only choice is to converse with a bot.

— John Hall, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Researchers have built ArabCulture-Dialogue, the first benchmark for testing whether leading AI models can understand and converse in Modern Standard Arabic and 13 national dialects.

— Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of converse

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However, the two parties met to bargain the four-day mandate in late April — more than two months before the mandate started.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 21 Aug. 2026
The Teamsters have been enthusiastically endorsing the bill specifically because, while 40-something employers would be difficult to collectively bargain against, DSP workers would be much easier to organize once within Amazon.

— Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of bargain

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For those who take pride in their pouty lips (or their ability to talk their way out of just about anything), a swipe of lipstick and nothing else is a cool way to look put together without the hustle of actually putting yourself together.

— Loren Savini, Allure, 4 Sep. 2026
Despite 40-plus years of dazzling red-carpet moments—and two decades since becoming the first Arab designer on the official Paris haute couture calendar—in real life Elie Saab is still more comfortable letting his runway do the talking for him.

— Tina Isaac-Goizé, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2026

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