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Bargain [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. 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.

2. Stipulation: interested dealing.

3. Purchase or the thing purchased.

4. In popular language, final event; upshot.

5. We must make the best of a bad bargain

6. To sell bargains, is a vulgar phrase.

7. To strike a bargain is to ratify an agreement, originally by striking, or shaking hands. The Latin ferire foedus, may represent a like ceremony, unless it refers to the practice of killing a victim, at the solemn ratification of oaths.

8. Bargain and sale, in law, a species of conveyance, by which the bargainer contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seised to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase; that is, the

9. bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession.

Bargain [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To make a contract or conclusive agreement, for the transfer of property; often with for before the thing purchased; as, to bargain for a house. A bargained with B for his farm.

Bargain [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To sell; to transfer for a consideration; as, A bargained away his farm; a popular use of the word.

Bargain [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.

3. A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.

4. The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.

5. To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.

Bargain [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.

Bargained [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Bargainee [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The party in a contract who receives or agrees to receive the property sold.

Bargainee [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold.

Bargainer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The party in a contract who stipulates to sell and convey property to another.

Bargainer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.

Bargaining [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Bargainor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another.

Compact Roget’s Thesaurus §769

N. compact, contract, agreement, bargain, # affidation, pact, paction, bond, covenant, indenture, bundobast, deal, stipulation, settlement, convention, compromise, cartel, protocol, treaty, concordat, zollverein, sonderbund, charter, magna charta, progmatic sanction, customs union, free trade region, general agreement on tariffs and trade, gatt, most favored nation status, negotiation, diplomacy, negotiator, ratification, completion, signature, seal, sigil, signet

V. contract, covenant, agree for, engage, treat, negotiate, stipulate, make terms, bargain, make a bargain, strike a bargain, come to terms, come to an understanding, compromise, set at rest, close, close with, conclude, complete, settle, confirm, ratify, clench, subscribe, underwrite, endorse, indorse, put the seal to, sign, seal, indent, take one at one's word, bargain by inch of candle

Adj. agreed, conventional, under hand and seal

Phr. caveat emptor

Barter Roget’s Thesaurus §794

N. barter, exchange, scorse|, truck system, # interchange, a roland for an oliver, quid pro quo, commutation, composition, indian gift, trade, commerce, mercature|, buying and selling, bargain and sale, traffic, business, nundination|, custom, shopping, commercial enterprise, speculation, jobbing, stockjobbing, agiotage, brokery, deal, dealing, transaction, negotiation, bargain, free trade

V. barter, exchange, swap, swop, truck, scorse|, interchange, commutate, compound for, trade, traffic, buy and sell, give and take, nundinate|, carry on a trade, ply a trade, drive a trade, be in business, be in the city, keep a shop, deal in, employ one's capital in, trade with, deal with, have dealings with, transact business with, do business with, open an account with, keep an account with, bargain, drive a bargain, make a bargain, negotiate, bid for, haggle, higgle, dicker, chaffer, huckster, cheapen, beat down, stickle, stickle for, out bid, under bid, ask, charge, strike a bargain, speculate, give a sprat to catch a herring, buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market, buy low and sell high, corner the market, rig the market, stag the market

Adj. commercial, mercantile, trading, interchangeable, marketable, staple, in the market, for sale, wholesale, retail

Adv. across the counter

Phr. cambio non e furto

Discount Roget’s Thesaurus §813

N. discount, abatement, concession, reduction, # depreciation, allowance, qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio, percentage, rebate, rebatement, backwardation, contango, salvage, tare and tret, sale, bargain, half price, price war, wholesale, wholesale price, dealer's price, trade price, coupon, discount coupon, cents-off coupon, store coupon, manufacturer's coupon, double coupon discount, triple coupon discount

V. discount, bate, abate, rebate, reduce, price down, mark down take off, allow, give, make allowance, tax

Adj. discounting

Adv. at a discount, below par, at wholesale, have a friend in the business

Cheapness Roget’s Thesaurus §815

N. cheapness, low price, depreciation, bargain, # good penny &c. worth, snap, gratuity, free quarters, free seats, free admission, pass, free pass, free warren, give-away, freebee, run of one's teeth, nominal price, peppercorn rent, labor of love, drug in the market, deadhead

V. be cheap, cost little, come down in price, fall in price, buy for a mere nothing, buy for an old song, have one's money's worth

Adj. cheap, low, low priced, moderate, reasonable, inexpensive, unexpensive, well worth the money, worth the money, magnifique et pas cher, good at the price, cheap at the price, dirt cheap, dog cheap, cheap, cheap as dirt, cheap and nasty, catchpenny, discounted, half-price, depreciated, unsalable, gratuitous, gratis, free, for nothing, costless, expenseless, without charge, not charged, untaxed, scotfree, shotfree, rent-free, free of cost, free of expense, honorary, unbought, unpaid

Adv. for a mere song, for a song, at cost, at cost price, at prime cost, at a reduction, a bon marche