0 past simple and past participle of bargain
1 to try to make someone agree to give you something that is better for you, such as a better price or better working conditions:
For the most part, gifts are only given in the absence of a bargained-for exchange.
Instead, the king bargained with the assembled estates, using a carefully constructed mixture of stick and carrot.
However, as communism evolved power devolved to constituent units who then bargained with the centre for resources.
Intra-family access to land may also come as a counterpart of some service (especially implying labour) and then approximate an intra-family bargained transaction.
She had not bargained for the ways in which society could transform scientific advances into mere instruments for maintaining itself intact.
It was ultimately a contract the price, or purchasing power, of which was permanently bargained between the government and the public.
We also control for the effect of the plan's size (number of participants) and whether the plan is collectively bargained on employee stock holdings.
Lucifer and his followers got more than they bargained for.
