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Bargain

1. To negotiate. For example, if the asking price for a house is $300,000 and a potential buyer does not want to pay that much, he may bargain with the seller to lower the price to $280,000.

2. A purchase with a price lower than fair market value, or at least lower than competitors' prices.

bargain

  1. the sale of a product at a cut price as a means of promoting sales of the product. See SALES PROMOTION.
  2. the sale or purchase of a FINANCIAL SECURITY on the STOCK MARKET.
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44) More supervision of line prosecutors' charging and nolle decisions by higher-ranking prosecutors would restrict their freedom to overcharge and bargain away.
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The ability of a landlord who is facing severe financial difficulties to bargain away apartments in his building with "sweetheart" leases was severely curtailed by this decision of the Appellate Division.
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The guild challenged the company's bad faith bargaining in coming to the table so late in the negotiations with such a complex issue, asking the guild to bargain away the members' future," a second WGA statement said.
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Asian papers cautiously read the statement as a sign the North was finally ready to bargain away its missile exports; the headline in the Bangkok Post was North Korea Offers Deal on Missiles.
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North Korea ''will not bargain away matters of principle related to the issue of Korea's reunification, which is vital to the Korean nation,'' the spokesman was quoted as saying.
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Marshall's readiness to bargain away some ill-defined degree of judicial review over foreign affairs had been foreshadowed in some earlier political views he expressed while a member of the House of Representatives.
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