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Roget 720: contend; contest, strive, struggle, scramble, wrestle; spar, square; exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs; fib^†, justle^†, tussle, tilt, box, stave, fence; skirmish; pickeer^†; fight etc. (war) 722; wrangle etc. (quarrel) 713.    contend with &c., grapple with, engage with, close with, buckle with, bandy with, try conclusions with, have a brush etc. n.. with, tilt with; encounter, fall foul of, pitch into, clapperclaw^†, run a tilt at; oppose etc. 708; reluct.    join issue, come to blows, go to loggerheads, set to, come to the scratch, exchange shots, measure swords, meet hand to hand; take up the cudgels, take up the glove, take up the gauntlet; enter the lists; couch one's lance; give satisfaction; appeal to arms; etc. (warfare) 722.    lay about one; break the peace.    compete with, cope with, vie with, race with; outvie^†, emulate, rival; run a race; contend for &c., stipulate for, stickle for; insist upon, make a point of.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 794: barter, exchange, swap, swop^†, truck, scorse^†; interchange etc. 148; commutate etc. (substitute) 147; compound for.    trade, traffic, buy and sell, give and take, nundinate^†; carry on a trade, ply a trade, drive a trade; be in business, be in the city; keep a shop, deal in, employ one's capital in.    trade with, deal with, have dealings with; transact business with, do business with; open an account with, keep an account with.    bargain; drive a bargain, make a bargain; negotiate, bid for; haggle, higgle^†; dicker [U.S.]; chaffer, huckster, cheapen, beat down; stickle, stickle for; out bid, under bid; ask, charge; strike a bargain etc. (contract) 769.    speculate, give a sprat to catch a herring; buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market, buy low and sell high; corner the market; rig the market, stag the market.    ... meer laten zien

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