bargained Definition

bargain
noun

1. An agreement made between people buying and selling things, offering and accepting services, etc.

Example: strike a bargain
Thesaurus: agreement, pact, contract, compact, arrangement, deal, pact, treaty, understanding, settlement, pledge.
2. Something offered for sale, or bought, at a low price.

Thesaurus: steal (slang, giveaway.

verb

intr
bargained, bargaining
1. To discuss the terms for buying or selling, etc.

Thesaurus: negotiate, haggle, deal, wheel and deal (slang), dicker, confer, make terms.
Form: bargain with someone (often)

Derivative: bargainer
noun

Note: especially in compounds
A person, especially someone of a specified kind, who bargains.
Example: a hard bargainer

Idiom: drive a hard bargain

To enter into an agreement only after bargaining hard for the best terms.

Idiom: into the bargain

In addition; besides.
Example: lost his job, and his home into the bargain

Etymology: 14c: from French bargaine.

Phrasal Verb: bargain something away

To lose it by bargaining badly.

Phrasal Verb: bargain for something

To be prepared for it.
Example: We hadn't bargained for a flood

Phrasal Verb: bargain on something

To rely on it or expect it to happen.
Example: wasn't bargaining on my mum arriving so early