horse-trade

1. 1.

   negotiate with much give and take

   Broadernegociate

Questions about horse-trade

What does horse-trade mean?

horse-trade means "negotiate with much give and take".

How many syllables are in horse-trade?

horse-trade has 3 syllables: hor-se--trade. The stress falls on "hor".

Is horse-trade a common word?

horse-trade is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.