bargain

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An agreement between parties fixing obligations that each promises to carry out.
2. n. An agreement establishing the terms of a sale or exchange of goods or services: finally reached a bargain with the antique dealer over the lamp.
3. n. Property acquired or services rendered as a result of such an agreement.
4. n. Something offered or acquired at a price advantageous to the buyer.
5. v. To negotiate the terms of an agreement, as to sell or exchange.
6. v. To engage in collective bargaining.
7. v. To arrive at an agreement.
8. v. To exchange; trade: bargained my watch for a meal.
9. for To count on; expect: "I never bargained for this tearing feeling inside me” ( Anne Tyler).
10. idiom. into Over and above what is expected; in addition.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of discussing the terms of a proposed agreement; bargaining.
2. n. A contention or contest for the mastery or upper hand; a struggle.
3. n. A contract or an agreement between two or more parties; a compact settling that something shall be done; specifically, 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.
4. n. The outcome of an agreement as regards one of the parties; that which is acquired by bargaining; the thing purchased or stipulated for: as, look at my bargain; a bad bargain; “a losing bargain,”
5. n. Something bought or sold at a low price; an advantageous purchase.
6. To treat about a transaction; make terms.
7. To come to or make an agreement; stipulate; make or strike a bargain: with a person, for an object: as, he bargained with the producers, for a daily supply.
8. To arrange beforehand by negotiation and agreement.
9. To agree to buy or sell.

Wiktionary

1. n. 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.
2. n. An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
3. n. A purchase; also (when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.
4. n. The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.
5. v. intransitive 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.
6. v. transitive To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. 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.
2. n. An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
3. n. A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase.
4. n. The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.
5. v. To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for.
6. v. To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. come to terms; arrive at an agreement
2. v. negotiate the terms of an exchange
3. n. an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each
4. n. an advantageous purchase