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horse-trade

VERB
  1. negotiate with much give and take

How To Use horse-trade In A Sentence

  • He effectively left school at his home near Toomebridge, Co Antrim, at the age of 11, going to work at the yard of a local horse-trader and ‘character’ named Billy Rock.
  • party leaders horse-trade to try to construct fragile coalitions
  • the destiny of the people was horse-traded at the Vienna Congress
  • There were few birth or marriage certificates, and when there were, the names were so strange: Lementeni Smith, his father a horse-trader, which should have set the bells ringing, but it didn't.
  • The current compromise there would have been impossible without experienced political horse-traders like Michael Somare and John Momis.
  • Early on in Everything Holy, the poem ‘The Constitution of Stars’ begins ‘the moon has moved’ and goes on to track horse-traders back to the mythic age of elephants.
  • Similarly, one does not throw the press, the public and even the elected representatives of the opposition party out of the room in which government control of one-sixth of the nation's economy is being horse-traded, logrolled, bribed and jawboned into shape in violation of the people's will, all the while praising the closed-door process as "the most transparent in history. Summit Daily News - Top Stories
  • You're one helluva horse-trader, Stone, but I'll run it by Langley with my endorsement for approval. CORMORANT
  • These days, horse-trader Costello prefers to watch the three-day Cheltenham Festival on television.
  • the state horse-trades constantly with the private sector
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