Bargain

Definition of Bargain

Bar´gain

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.

A contract is a bargain that is legally binding.

- Wharton.

An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.

And whon your honors mean to solemnize
The bargain of your faith.

- Shak.

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

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

She was too fond of her most filthy bargain.

- Shak.

Bargain and sale
(Law) a species of conveyance, by which the bargainor contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase; i. e., the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession.

Into the bargain
over and above what is stipulated; besides. - Blackstone.

To sell bargains
to make saucy (usually indelicate) repartees.

To strike a bargain
to reach or ratify an agreement. - Swift.

v. i.

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.

So worthless peasants bargain for their wives.

- Shak.

v. t.

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

[imp. & p. p. Bargained ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Bargaining.]

To bargain away
to dispose of in a bargain; - usually with a sense of loss or disadvantage; as, to bargain away one's birthright. - G. Eliot.

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