WordNet
v. persuade the seller to accept a lower price; "She beat the merchant down $100" [syn: beat down]
Usage examples of "bargain down".
The trial, a diminished capacity defense, a plea bargain down to Manslaughter Two.
He might be all too willing to bargain down any extension to his sentence.
The little man always asked seventy-five cents more than the going price per cap, and it had become part of the tradition that the buyer had to bargain down to two dollars and fifty cents before he would sell anything.
And there were things that Kresh knew that Dee and Dum did not--how best to handle this local leader, which prices for emergency supplies he could expect to bargain down and which he could not, where he could ask a favor, where he could call one in, how far people could be pushed if need be, and when to give up.
Which her attorney'll bargain down to two, anyway, and she'll be out in six, seven months?