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Grammar : Noun
Spell : bahr-guhn
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɑr gən



Définition of bargaining

Origin :
  • mid-14c., "business transaction or agreement," also "that which is acquired by bargaining," from Old French bargaine, from bargaignier (see bargain (v.)). Meaning "article priced for special sale" is from 1899. A bargain basement (1899) originally was a basement floor in a store where bargains were displayed.
  • noun trade
Example sentences :
  • The card-players have plunged suddenly in medias res of bargaining.
  • Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
  • And he, ‘I do not feel like chaffering and bargaining this morning.’
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • The price of it was three sous, but, by dint of bargaining, she got it for two.
  • Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
  • It may be that he is bargaining for the Chancellorship, which he is certainly not fit for.
  • Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II (of II) » by Edmund Downey
  • "I hate the idea of bargaining with that wretch," said Lucille.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 » by Various
  • We were surrounded and arrested at Toxem while bargaining and selecting ponies.
  • Extract from : « In the Forbidden Land » by Arnold Henry Savage Landor
  • There she found Barry bargaining for some things he at least had money for.
  • Extract from : « The Carpenter's Daughter » by Anna Bartlett Warner
  • And this it does, through the incidence of bargaining and the law of supply and demand.
  • Extract from : « Socialism » by John Spargo
  • How long the process of bargaining might have been protracted is uncertain.
  • Extract from : « Paul Patoff » by F. Marion Crawford
  • Mind, this covenanting with God is not a case of bargaining.
  • Extract from : « Standards of Life and Service » by T. H. Howard

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