The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: bargain)
Usage examples of "bargained".
In February 1989, Prophet and Knight Lightning bargained electronically over the fate of this trophy.
Some of these people found this situation much more than they had ever bargained for.
In fact, after 1990, many people must have concluded that a single Barlow was far more than they'd ever bargained for.
Once there she whispered, "Have you never bargained before in your life?
I had expected to walk back to town for the night, but Starling bargained with Pelf, her songs for a meal for us, and then to prepare us a room for the night.
I resented Starling's going, once I discovered what she had bargained to be allowed to go.
The last time we made such a trade, when I gave you the secret you'd bargained for, you found you did not want it.
I still had not forgotten that she had bargained her knowledge of my child in order to be part of this expedition.
But night was coming, and I still didn't know what price Jean-Claude had bargained away to get Vivian and Gregory out of there.
Once there she whispered, Have you never bargained before in your life?
All along we were told that Peter's army was months ahead of us, slaughtering infidels and hoarding all the spoils, while our nobles fought and bickered among themselves, and the rest of us trudged like beaten livestock in the blistering heat and bargained for what little food there was.
After all I'd been through, my life was being bargained for by a couple of bickering nobles.
He had bargained with Chthon to preserve her life, but in that moment he would gladly have killed her himself.
If this child is the Talisman, and he has these powers, we could be letting ourselves in for more than we bargained for.