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Bargain   /bˈɑrgən/  /bˈɑrgɪn/   Listen
Bargain

noun
1.
An agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each.  Synonym: deal.  "He rose to prominence through a series of shady deals"
2.
An advantageous purchase.  Synonyms: buy, steal.  "The stock was a real buy at that price"
verb
(past & past part. bargained; pres. part. bargaining)
1.
Negotiate the terms of an exchange.  Synonym: dicker.
2.
Come to terms; arrive at an agreement.



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"Bargain" Quotes from Famous Books



... an average more than seven leagues [2] a day. It sounds simple enough but it took no end of argument and persuasion on the part of our friends in Arequipa to convince these worthy arrieros that they were not going to be everlastingly ruined by this bargain. The trouble was that they owned their mules, knew the great danger of crossing the deserts that lay between us and Mt. Coropuna, and feared to travel on unknown trails. Like most muleteers, they were afraid of unfamiliar ...
— Inca Land - Explorations in the Highlands of Peru • Hiram Bingham
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... over those bronze faces, he could pick out the scowling husbands who hated him because their wives hated them. He could see Ben Ali, the master of two beauties from Teheran and the handsome dancing girl from Cairo; there was Amriph, who basked erstwhile in the sunshine of a bargain from Damascus and a seraph from Bagdad, but who now groped about in the blackness of their contempt; and others, all of whom felt in their bitter hearts that their misery was due to the prowess ...
— The Man From Brodney's • George Barr McCutcheon
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... The bargain was stuck then and there and the transfer from Jones' pockets to those of McDuff effected. Unfortunately, however, Jones next day discovered that Holahan harbored no ill-will against him and that the supposed officer was nothing of the kind. Rising in ...
— The Confessions of Artemas Quibble • Arthur Train
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... this is done the title to the flock does not pass until they have been counted, but, nevertheless, the purchaser can hold the seller to the bargain if he does not make delivery, even though the purchase money has not passed, and by a like right the seller can hold the buyer if he does ...
— Roman Farm Management - The Treatises Of Cato And Varro • Marcus Porcius Cato
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... analogue on this side of the Atlantic, when his life, and his newspapers, are full of vulgar and ephemeral distractions, how much harder must it have been for a Euripidean enthusiast, or a student of Socrates or Protagoras, to descend for long days to solid earth in order to strike a bargain with a Thracian chieftain or to assess some poor devil's damages in drachmae! Let us honour, not pity or despise them, for having thought it right to do so, for having deliberately determined to infuse into public affairs, in themselves so drab and dull, so deficient in the ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various
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