(n.) 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.
(n.) An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
(n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.
(n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(2) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
(3) For the best part of a week, the world’s leaders – more than 150 of them – will mingle, bargain and argue over the state of the world at the UN general assembly in New York.
(4) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(5) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
(6) Critics of Rouhani’s policy of rapprochement with the international community inside Iran can turn to the supreme leader and say there wasn’t really much need for that softer tone because now we have more bargaining chips in our hands.
(7) And they will be bargaining with regimes that they have held at arm’s length.” She added the EU “should be rethinking its approach.
(8) The collectively bargained rights of all players must be vehemently preserved and we take that obligation seriously,” the statement said.
(9) When I peruse a potential bargain I know I am influenced more by the extent of the reduction than whether the discounted item is something we really want.
(10) He called for nothing less than a "grand bargain" among major players of the world economy.
(11) Bargaining is a question of clout, and which side has more of it.
(12) But the best way to guarantee fair pay is through strengthening unions’ ability to bargain collectively – giving employees the right to organise through a union and negotiate their pay, terms and conditions at work,” he writes.
(13) But the star – who is better known for divisive wins at awards ceremonies and singing about the merits of charity shop bargains – was one of many hip-hop and urban artists who made their voices heard after the grand jury’s decision to not indict Wilson.
(14) People go to where the bargains are and at present they are in the north.
(15) "I don't usually hang around for the bargains, but it doesn't hurt to be careful with money when you live in Tokyo.
(16) Dealers desperately want to believe in the German plan so bond yields fell in Italy and Spain yesterday on expectations that Sarkozy and Merkel will settle any remaining differences on Monday, the ECB will cut interest rates on Thursday and the Brussels summit will agree a Grand Bargain on Friday.
(17) By failing to address some of the flaws before escalating the number of assessments, the government is in grave danger of undermining the principle of helping people into work, and risks failing the most needy into the bargain.
(18) As a result, we talk about the issues and get a glimpse of each other's perspectives, into the bargain.
(19) And leaving the programme should be the responsibility not just of the debt country but the creditor country as well.” Athens, Tsakalotos continued, had kept its side of the bargain, legislating highly unpopular reforms to produce savings of 2% of GDP, while the European Union and International Monetary Fund had not kept theirs.
(20) Information about healthcare "bargains" is easy to obtain.
Barter
Definition:
(v. i.) To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.
(v. t.) To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.
(n.) The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.
(n.) The thing given in exchange.
Example Sentences:
(1) Children with living parents were bartered, abducted and palmed off to Americans and northern Europeans who paid large sums to have a child of their own.
(2) It is a bit rich to expect us to state exactly how we’ll whip our troops when Cameron himself still can’t come out and say what he’ll do with his own cabinet.” Behind the scenes, “sources close to Corbyn” could usefully soothe pro-European nerves: “As an internationalist party, our inclination is of course to remain within the European family, but it would be irresponsible to declare our hand now, leaving Cameron to barter away British employment rights.” However Corbyn votes himself, it is perfectly plain that he will not have the authority to whip individual Euro-enthusiast MPs to vote against their consciences, so he may as well concede that at once.
(3) We bartered for almonds and olives in the market, where there wasn't another tourist to be seen, and sat on the ramparts, watching the sun fall away beyond the horizon.
(4) It is "our only remaining bartering tool" one union leader said.
(5) The real bartering will be around the question of an acceptable definition of inequality.
(6) The question for the White House now is how the Copenhagen agreement will affect its ambitions to present Congress with a wide ranging energy bill that would enshrine a cap-and-trade system for reducing emissions through bartering.
(7) Women's rights have become a kind of bartering chip to be traded away for political agendas that have little or nothing to do with the interests and wellbeing of women and girls."
(8) People worked long hours for little, bartering farm produce for the few store-bought necessities.
(9) Leveson said her testimony was evidence that the family had been "targets of press intrusion" and felt there "was no remedy apart from bartering away your privacy".
(10) Once he had assembled his cast in the rehearsal rooms, Lepage mixed in some of his own family folklore, the tale of a grand-uncle who became so indebted to Chinese gamblers that he was forced to barter his pregnant daughter.
(11) This shows that restrictions on commercial and barter transactions, to be imposed by the authorities, are required.
(12) It leaves Arsenal with mixed feelings as the summer bartering comes to an end.
(13) If comics have to start bartering for groceries, their dignity's gone for good.
(14) A senior Russian government official – who spoke to Reuters – said separately that Russia has started supplying grain, equipment and construction materials to Iran in exchange for crude oil under a barter deal.
(15) We speculate that the enrichment of polyunsaturated fatty acids on the cell membranes may represent a condition favoring the lipoperoxidation and therefore the development of the retinitis pigmentosa characteristic feature of Laurence-Moon-Barter-Biedl Syndrome.
(16) The Kalunga have a cooperativist society and money is not frequently used as they favor the barter system.
(17) The rebels have described the kidnapped Europeans as prisoners of war and said they might be bartered for imprisoned pro-Russian activists in Kiev.
(18) Russia also said it has struck a barter deal with Iran, exchanging Iran oil for Russian grain and other commodities, although traders said they saw no sign of any increased shipments of either.
(19) Barterers are shown to be the heaviest drug users, using the greatest variety of drugs, using larger amounts of drugs, and using more frequently.
(20) By day, guests loll in the lounge area or sun themselves on the beach, bartering for fresh catch with local fishermen when they return from the sea in the afternoon.