Bargaining

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bargain \Bar"gain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bargained} (?); p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Bargaining}.]
     To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to
     bargain one horse for another.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     {To bargain away}, to dispose of in a bargain; -- usually
        with a sense of loss or disadvantage; as, to bargain away
        one's birthright. "The heir . . . had somehow bargained
        away the estate." --G. Eliot.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bargaining
       n : the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "bargaining":
     audience, bargaining session, chaffer, chaffering,
     collective bargaining, coming to terms, conclave, confab,
     confabulation, conference, confrontation, congress, consultation,
     convention, council, council fire, council of war, dickering,
     discussion, exchange of views, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter,
     haggle, haggling, higgling, high-level talk, huddle,
     interchange of views, interview, meeting, negotiation,
     negotiations, news conference, package bargaining, palaver, parley,
     pattern bargaining, pourparler, powwow, press conference, seance,
     session, sitting, summit, summit conference, summitry