Bargain
['bɑːgən] or ['bɑrɡən]
Definition
(noun.) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each; 'he made a bargain with the devil'; 'he rose to prominence through a series of shady deals'.
(noun.) an advantageous purchase; 'she got a bargain at the auction'; 'the stock was a real buy at that price'.
(verb.) come to terms; arrive at an agreement.
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Definition
(n.) An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.
(n.) An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
(n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.
(n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.
(n.) To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.
(v. t.) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Compact, agreement, stipulation, covenant, contract, convention, concordat, treaty, indenture.[2]. Cheap purchase, purchase on favorable terms, good bargain.
v. n. Contract, agree, stipulate, covenant, make a bargain.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Transaction, negotiation, business, profit, speculation, higgling, gain,hawking, chaffer, haggling
ANT:Loss, misprofit
Typist: Phil
Definition
n. a contract or agreement: a favourable transaction: an advantageous purchase: (Shak.) chaffering.—v.i. to make a contract or agreement: to chaffer: to count on take into consideration (with for): to lose by bad bargaining (with away).—n. Bar′gainer.—Bargain and sale in law a mode of conveyance whereby property may be assigned or transferred for valuable consideration.—Into the bargain over and above; To make the best of a bad bargain to make the best of difficult circumstances; To sell any one a bargain (Shak.) to befool him; To strike a bargain to come to terms about a purchase.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A disease common to women, caught in the Sunday papers and developed in department stores on Mondays. Symptoms, loud talk, pushing and shoving, a combination prize-fight and foot-ball scrimmage. (Old spelling Bark-gain).
Checker: Walter
Examples
- If I must disgrace myself by such a bargain with any man, I prefer that it be one I already despise. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I'll tell you what, though; my lodger is so black-humoured and gloomy that I believe he'd as soon make that bargain as any other. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Come, Miss Marianne, let us strike hands upon the bargain, and if Miss Dashwood will change her mind by and bye, why so much the better. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- She hated calls of the formal sort, and never made any till Amy compelled her with a bargain, bribe, or promise. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I should not like to have to bargain with him; he looks very inflexible. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- That was only a month to wait, and here was a lovely violet silk going at a bargain, and she had the money, if she only dared to take it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But the vow had been part of the bargain by which he secured the support of Pope Innocent III in his election as emperor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I am covetous, and love good bargains. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They had not then learned, as I am told, to haggle for bargains with the pertinacity which now distinguishes them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mrs. Crawley returned a note with her compliments, and an intimation that it was not her custom to transact bargains with ladies' maids. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was a slight demand for finished goods; and as it affected his branch of the trade, he took advantage of it, and drove hard bargains. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- What bargains shall I strike? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The Congress had hardly assembled before the diplomatists set to work making secret bargains and treaties behind each other's backs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Much as people's breaking promises and contracts and bargains of all sorts, makes good for MY trade. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Nor was Mrs. Amelia at all above the pleasure of shopping, and bargaining, and seeing and buying pretty things. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And what will you do, Janet, while I am bargaining for so many tons of flesh and such an assortment of black eyes? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And again the woman anxiously and actively fingered the mattress and added up in her mind and bargained with the old, unclean man. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The months passed (more than I had bargained for), and no occasion presented itself for disturbing that mark in the book. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Napoleon, as First Consul, bargained with him over his invention of torpedoes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The task I had set myself began to look like a harder task than I had bargained for. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I won't weary you with the account of how we bargained and negotiated. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It gave government to the rich, and imagined that wise men could be bought and bargained for in the slave markets when they were needed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But there was another adornment of the hotel which Mr Dorrit had not bargained for. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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