horse-trade
verb [ I ] often disapproving uk/ˈhɔːs.treɪd/ us/ˈhɔːrs.treɪd/
（私下里进行的对双方都有好处的）讨价还价
to have unofficial discussions in which people make agreements that provide both sides with advantages
She understood that you can't always have everything you want and that you have to horse-trade sometimes. 她明白，你不可能总是拥有你想要的一切，有时你必须讨价还价。
He constantly had to horse trade to get results. 他不得不不断地讨价还价才能得到结果。
See: horse-trading
- More examples
- He was widely believed to have horse-traded with the paper's editor.
- It would be better if we horse-traded, because that really is how business gets done.
- In other democracies, they figure out how to horse trade and compromise.