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Bargained vs Bargaining - What's the difference?

bargained | bargaining |

As verbs the difference between bargained and bargaining

is that bargained is past tense of bargain while bargaining is present participle of bargain.

As a noun bargaining is

the act of one who bargains.

bargained

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bargain)

    • Anagrams

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    bargain

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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)

    Synonyms

    * contract, engagement, purchase, stipulation * (an advantageous purchase) steal

    Antonyms

    * rip-off

    Derived terms

    * bargain basement * Faustian bargain * into the bargain * prebargaining

    Verb

  • 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.
    • So worthless peasants bargain for their wives. -- Shakespeare.
    united we bargain, divided we beg
  • To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.

    • Derived terms

    * bargain agent * bargain away * bargain date

    See also

    * (l)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    bargaining

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining ". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who bargains.
  • * Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times (book 2, page 51)
    • All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings , and blackmailings.