bargain
verb [no object]
negotiate the terms and conditions of a transaction: he bargained with the city council to rent the stadium | (as noun bargaining) : many statutes are passed by political bargaining.
- [with object] (bargain something away) part with something after negotiation but get little or nothing in return: his determination not to bargain away any of the province’s existing economic powers.
It is one of those odd things that people of all nations do in the case of purchases large and small.
