Meaning
値切る (ねぎる, negiru) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “ask for a discount, haggle for bargains”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 5
彼は値切るのが上手です。
He's good at haggling for bargains.
彼女は値切るのがうまいんだ。
She's good at bargaining the price down.
彼は物を買う時は儀式のように必ず値切る.
He never buys anything without the ritual of bargaining.
値切るにしてもコスト計算などによる正当な根拠が必要です。(ビジネス英会話で使う場合)
We need a justifiable reason for a discount, such as a result of cost accounting.
乾物屋や八百屋や肉屋に無理矢理まけさせたので、しまいに、こんなに値切るなんてという無言の非難で頬が赤くなるほどでした。
at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.