bargaining chip

English

Noun

bargaining chip (plural bargaining chips)

1. Someone or something used as a leverage in negotiations.
   • 1984 October 21, Walter Mondale, 1984 U.S. Presidential Debate:

     As a matter of fact, we have a vast range of technology and weaponry right now that provides all the bargaining chips that we need.

   • 2012 October 27, “Afghanistan: Towards a better land”, in The Economist‎^[1]:

     The money separately pledged to the security forces must not become a bargaining chip — it was after Russia cut off such cash that the government in Kabul fell in 1992.

   • 2022 December 15, Patrick Wintour, “Why Crimea is Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s greatest bargaining chip”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Why Crimea is Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s greatest bargaining chip [title]

Synonyms

• bargaining counter

Translations

leverage at negotiations

• Dutch: onderhandelingstroef f, onderhandelingsmiddel n, ruilmiddel (nl) n
• Finnish: neuvotteluvaltti (fi), pelimerkki (fi)
• French: monnaie d’échange f
• German: Druckmittel n
• Polish: karta przetargowa (pl) f, karta atutowa f
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} козы́рная ка́рта f (kozýrnaja kárta)

See also

• insurance policy