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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

the sale of a product at a cut price as a means of promoting sales of the product. See SALES PROMOTION.
the sale or purchase of a FINANCIAL SECURITY on the STOCK MARKET.

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LyondellBasell gave its "last, best and final" offer to Local 13-227's bargaining committee on April 11.

USW Files Additional Charges Against LyondellBasell Houston Refining Over Refusal to Bargain and Implementation of Rejected Proposals: Union Continues to Press for Negotiations

Collective bargaining is the process in which the terms and conditions of employment are determined jointly by the employer and workers.

Collective bargaining--its relationship to stakeholders

Academic Collective Bargaining is an anthology of essays by learned contributors to educate readers about the history and context of collective bargaining as a negotiation tactic, particularly in the academic career realm.

Academic Collective Bargaining

But open-air markets, where the art of bargaining on price keeps things lively, are also snagging more mall shoppers than they used to.

SHOPPING FOR A BARGAIN DEAL HUNTERS TRAVEL, HAGGLE FOR HIGH QUALITY, LOW PRICES

Now it is time to bring equal transparency to the collective bargaining process.

Let the public in: how closed negotiations with unions are hurting our schools

The FTC found that the PPA in effect renders NTSP as the sole bargaining agent of the competing physicians, and thus facilitates price fixing among competitor physicians.

Anti-trust implications of independent practice associations

Unified School District as assistant superintendent for business and attended his first teacher contract bargaining session there.

A (not so) hard bargain: contract negotiations have become a whole lot less contentious in many districts today, as the tenets of interest-based bargaining take hold

In the United States, more than 90 percent of all cases in the justice system are settled by plea bargaining rather than exercising the right to trial.

What a bargain: the widespread practice of plea bargaining has increased repercussions for people of color who end up literally signing away their lives on the dotted line

This is to take into account new forms of bargaining, NZNO's focus on sector work, and moves towards more multi-site and national CA bargaining.

New bargaining criteria recommended: new bargaining criteria should help organizers establish priorities in negotiating collective agreements

EDMONTON -- The Alberta government introduced changes to the provincial labour laws to change bargaining in the healthcare sector in that province.

Alberta cuts number of bargaining units in health care. (Health)

An affiliate of the AFT, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) won the subsequent collective bargaining election (Brooks, 1967).

The evolution of research and information services at the American Federation of Teachers

RICHARD EPSTEIN 'S BARGAINING with the State is intended to be the flip side of his 1985 book, Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain.