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bargain noun 1 an agreement made between people buying and selling things, offering and accepting services, etc • strike a bargain. 2 something offered for sale, or bought, at a low price. verb (bargained, bargaining) intrans (often bargain with someone) to discuss the terms for buying or selling, etc. bargainer noun, especially in compounds a person, especially someone of a specified kind, who bargains • a hard bargainer. drive a hard bargain to enter into an agreement only after bargaining hard for the best terms. into the bargain in addition; besides • lost his job, and his home into the bargain.
ETYMOLOGY: 14c: from French bargaine.
bargain something away to lose it by bargaining badly. bargain for something to be prepared for it • We hadn't bargained for a flood. bargain on something especially with negatives to rely on it or expect it to happen • wasn't bargaining on my mum arriving so early. |
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