Bargain vs Trad - What's the difference?
bargain | trad |
An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.
*(rfdate) (w, Wharton's Law Lexicon)
*:A contract is a bargain that is legally binding.
An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
*(rfdate), (William Shakespeare)
*:And whon your honors mean to solemnize The bargain of your faith.
An item (usually brand new) purchased for significantly less than the usual, or recommended, price; also (when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase.
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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
The thing stipulated or purchased.
*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare)
*:She was too fond of her most filthy bargain .
(Webster 1913)
To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; to negotiate; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.
To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.
Short for traditional, referring to an older or original style, especially in the phrase trad jazz.
Short for traditional, used in lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.
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As a noun bargain
is an agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.As a verb bargain
is to make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; to negotiate; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.bargain
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* contract, engagement, purchase, stipulation * (an advantageous purchase) stealAntonyms
* rip-offDerived terms
* bargain basement * Faustian bargain * into the bargain * prebargainingVerb
- So worthless peasants bargain for their wives. -- Shakespeare.
- united we bargain, divided we beg