bargain
- Noun. 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.
- Noun. An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
- Noun. A purchase; also (when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.
- Noun. The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.
- Verb. (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.
- Verb. (transitive) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.
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