"chaffering" meaning in English

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          "text": "September 9, 1819, Washington Irving, letter to Henry Breevort\nYou have put my writings into circulation, and arranged the pecuniary concerns in such a way as to save future trouble and petty chafferings about accounts, and to give the whole an independent and gentlemanlike air."
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          "ref": "1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:",
          "text": "The air was all smell – curry-stuff, durian, fish and flesh – and the noise was of hoicking and chaffering.",
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        "The act of one who chaffers."
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          "text": "September 9, 1819, Washington Irving, letter to Henry Breevort\nYou have put my writings into circulation, and arranged the pecuniary concerns in such a way as to save future trouble and petty chafferings about accounts, and to give the whole an independent and gentlemanlike air."
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