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Horse-trade

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Verb

1. horse-trade

negotiate with much give and take

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Horse-trade

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verb (intransitive)
1. 
to buy and sell horses
2. 
to negotiate or bargain boldly and effectively
Politicians horse-trade over who will fill top government jobs.

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Horse-trade

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1. 
an exchange of horses
2. 
any bargaining session marked by shrewd calculation by each side

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Horse-trade

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n.
Negotiation characterized by hard bargaining and shrewd exchange: political horse-trading.

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