tinkiä — meaning in English

English meaning

• beat verb To hit repeatedly, or to defeat someone in a contest.
• chaffer verb To argue over a price, or to trade goods by exchange.
• cheapen verb To lower the price or value of something.
• commute verb To travel regularly between home and one's place of work or study.
• haggle verb To negotiate persistently over a price or deal.
• traffic noun Vehicles or pedestrians moving along a road, or the general flow of such movement.

Senses

tinkiä is used for these senses in English:

• beat (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• chaffer (intransitive) To haggle or barter.
• cheapen (transitive, obsolete) To bargain for, ask the price of.
• commute (intransitive, obsolete) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;

beat — full definition

1. verb To hit repeatedly, or to defeat someone in a contest.
2. verb To mix ingredients rapidly, usually with a whisk or spoon.
3. noun A regular rhythmic pulse, especially in music.
4. noun A journalist's or police officer's regular area of responsibility or patrol.
5. adj Informal: completely exhausted.

chaffer — full definition

1. verb To argue over a price, or to trade goods by exchange.
2. verb To talk a lot about unimportant things.

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