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Bid vs Bargain - What's the difference?

bid | bargain |

In transitive terms the difference between bid and bargain

is that bid is to offer as a price while bargain is to transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.

In intransitive terms the difference between bid and bargain

is that bid is to make an attempt while 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.

As an initialism BID

is Bis in die: twice a day, two times per day.

bid

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • (medicine) Bis in die : twice a day, two times per day.
    • Commonly written as: "amoxicillin 500 mg BID ", read as: "amoxicillin totalling 500 milligram dosage (daily total), taken two times a day".

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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

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