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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bargaining
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bargaining/negotiating position (=someone’s ability to bargain/negotiate)
▪ The new law has strengthened workers' bargaining position .
bargaining chip
collective bargaining
free collective bargaining
plea bargaining
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
collective
▪ Free collective bargaining was its watchword.
▪ As a result, the scope of autonomous collective bargaining was restricted.
▪ Faith in collective bargaining could not take root.
▪ One avenue for provision of such resources may be through collective bargaining.
▪ Mr. Evans Did the Minister discuss with the unions concerned the maintenance of free collective bargaining and union recognition in the agencies?
▪ Thereafter, a formal machinery of collective bargaining was gradually set up.
▪ In both countries collective bargaining had emerged in a form strongly influenced by product market considerations.
▪ The unions had almost no influence on the factory floor and were ineffective in collective bargaining.
■ NOUN
plea
▪ A classic case of plea bargaining.
▪ But they say methods such as plea bargaining help to stop the courts becoming congested.
▪ The general sentiment among lawyers is that the Commission is likely to favour plea bargaining if sufficient safeguards can be built in.
▪ The system in Britain is not as dominated by plea bargaining, but it is certainly present.
wage
▪ During the 1950s, however, employers began to press successfully for coordinated, central wage bargaining, which has continued subsequently.
▪ They are wrong for this country's future and contrary to this party's belief in decentralised wage bargaining.
▪ The first part of the research uses game theory to analyse wage bargaining and employment decisions in models with explicit institutional setups.
▪ Mr. Hughes I do not share my hon. Friend's contention that one should support national wage bargaining.
▪ Regional banding could not be agreed to simply on the basis of national wage bargaining.
▪ Localized wage bargaining was symbolic of the decentralization of decision-making in general, a process involving a profound change in managerial culture.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
earning/purchasing/bargaining etc power
▪ At the same time the peso was devalued by 600 % and inflation soared over consumers' purchasing power declined.
▪ Dollars have less international purchasing power and more dollars have to be spent.
▪ In a competitive market the bargaining power of the owner of a particular commodity is limited.
▪ Pensions represent a transfer of resources in the form of purchasing power from current taxpayers or pension-fund contributors to past contributors.
▪ That reduces the real purchasing power of wages.
▪ The drop in inflation boosted purchasing power, he said.
▪ The goods became obtainable, but not purchasable, because of the lack of purchasing power among the population.
▪ The third category relates to private transactions, where an equality of bargaining power is usually to be presumed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After much bargaining, we agreed to share the profits 50-50.
▪ Effective bargaining by their union has gained clothing workers a 9% pay rise.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Collective bargaining is a flexible instrument and can build upon the minimum standards which the law lays down.
▪ Sometimes this can be done before negotiations start and occasionally during the actual bargaining itself.
▪ Then came the consultation proper, and the bargaining began.
▪ They are wrong for this country's future and contrary to this party's belief in decentralised wage bargaining.
▪ This is where hard bargaining at the time that you negotiated your service contract could pay off handsomely.
▪ You need a flexible and adaptive approach in devising your ground plan for bargaining.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bargaining

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
bargaining

n. The act of one who bargains. vb. (present participle of bargain English)

WordNet
bargaining

n. the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement

Wikipedia
Bargaining (Desperate Housewives)

"Bargaining" is the 108th episode of the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives. It is the twenty-first episode of the show's fifth season and aired on May 3, 2009.

Bargaining (disambiguation)

Bargaining is a type of negotiation.

Bargaining may also refer to:

  • "Bargaining" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a 2001 television episode
  • Collective bargaining, process of negotiating between employers and their employees, or employee representatives
  • Plea bargain, an agreement in a criminal case
  • Bargaining (psychology), one of the five stages of grief in the Kübler-Ross model
Bargaining

Bargaining or haggling is a type of negotiation in which the buyer and seller of a good or service debate the price and exact nature of a transaction. If the bargaining produces agreement on terms, the transaction takes place. Bargaining is an alternative pricing strategy to fixed prices. Optimally, if it costs the retailer nothing to engage and allow bargaining, he/she can divine the buyer's willingness to spend. It allows for capturing more consumer surplus as it allows price discrimination, a process whereby a seller can charge a higher price to one buyer who is more eager (by being richer or more desperate). Haggling has largely disappeared in parts of the world where the cost to haggle exceeds the gain to retailers for most common retail items. However, for expensive goods sold to uninformed buyers such as automobiles, bargaining can remain commonplace.

Dickering refers to the same process, albeit with a slight negative (petty) connotation.

Bargaining is also the name chosen for the third stage of the Kübler-Ross model (commonly known as the stages of dying), even though it has nothing to do with price negotiations.

Bargaining (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"Bargaining" is the two-part season premiere of the sixth season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, consisting of the first and second episodes. They are also the 101st and 102nd episodes of the show overall. The two constituent episodes were both aired on October 2, 2001 on UPN. The episodes were written by Marti Noxon and David Fury and directed by David Grossman.

The Scooby Gang resurrect Buffy Summers ( Sarah Michelle Gellar), after her death in the previous episode. Rupert Giles ( Anthony Stewart Head) returns to England, and a group of biker demons wreak havoc on Sunnydale.

Usage examples of "bargaining".

But by the time I arrived at the embassy, Batty told me they were already bargaining for the sport of you.

The chimpanzee played under the table while the bargaining sessions went on, climbing the legs, dropping back to the floor, rolling around and hooting softly.

Profit and loss, inflow and outflow, pluses and minuses, sales and bargaining and corporate design.

In addition to the nearly full-time job of bargaining for those necessities that could be bargained for, substituting or improvising those that could not, and hamstering away in basements and shelters any storable food that could be found, my foster father Johann had another job, or perhaps an obsession.

I was agreeably surprised to find Leah there, bargaining for a quantity of articles, all of which she pronounced to be too dear.

The trade-offs inherent in the trimester system smack of the bargaining and dealing that legislators engage in to pass a highway construction bill.

We can put the warranters in a stronger bargaining position if we all band together.

Pounder, a street-corner dopeman bargaining for favor after his recent bust.

The pedestrians came in all races and colors, shrieking at those who got in the way and bargaining at the tops of their lungs.

Galardo had started by bargaining and wound up by threatening, but how could you do anything but laugh at his best offer, a rusty five-pound spur gear with a worn keyway and three teeth missing?

A quarter of a century later, however, the Nauruans were unwilling to accept that sort of solution, and after some years of hard bargaining, became independent in 1968, winning at the same time complete control over their phosphate ore on which previously they had been receiving small royalties.

The stallkeeper, sensing a desire to purchase that went beyond normal bargaining, drew out more surprises from a chest.

In fact, he overhears him bargaining to sell him to a Tarkhan, or great lord.

First, the Russians, French, and Chinese would all see such an American ultimatum as an opportunity to start bargaining with the United States, to string us along and preclude the threatened invasion by delay.

He was listening, with a good-humored, negligent air, half comic, half contemptuous, to Haley, who was very volubly expatiating on the quality of the article for which they were bargaining.