bargain
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Middle English bargaynen (“to bargain, make a pledge for sale”), from Anglo-Norman bargai(g)ner (“to bargain”), from Old French bargai(g)ner (“to bargain, haggle”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *borganjan (“to borrow, lend”), from Proto-Germanic *burganan (“to borrow, lend”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhergh- (“to protect, secure”). Akin to Old High German bor(a)gēn (“to look after, care for”) (German borgen), Old English borgian (“to borrow, lend, pledge”). More at borrow.
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bargain (plural bargains)
- 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.
- A contract is a bargain that is legally binding. --w:Wharton.
- An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
- And whon your honors mean to solemnize The bargain of your faith. --w:Shak.
- A purchase; also (when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.
- The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.
- She was too fond of her most filthy bargain. --w:Shak.
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- {Bargain and sale} (Law), a species of conveyance, by which the bargainor contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase; i. e., the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession. --w:Blackstone.
- {Into the bargain}, over and above what is stipulated;besides.
- (obsolete){To sell bargains}, to make saucy (usually indelicate) repartees. --Jonathan Swift.
- {To strike a bargain}, to reach or ratify an agreement. ``A bargain was struck. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay.
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- rip-off (3,4)
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purchase, transaction
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bargain (third-person singular simple present bargains, present participle bargaining, simple past and past participle bargained)
- (intransitive) To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; to negotiate; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.
- So worthless peasants bargain for their wives. -- Shakespeare.
- united we bargain, divided we beg
- (transitive) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.
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to make a bargain
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barganan
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