Definition of Bargaining

1. Noun. The negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement.

Specialized synonyms: Plea Bargain, Plea Bargaining, Haggle, Haggling, Wrangle, Wrangling, Holdout
Generic synonyms: Dialogue, Negotiation, Talks
Derivative terms: Bargain

Definition of Bargaining

1. Verb. (present participle of bargain) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bargaining

1. bargain [v] - See also: bargain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bargaining

barfs
barful
barfuls
barfy
bargain
bargain-priced
bargain agent
bargain down
bargain hunter
bargain rate
bargained
bargainee
bargainees
bargainer
bargainers
bargaining (current term)
bargaining chip
bargaining power
bargaining powers
bargaining unit
bargainor
bargainors
bargainous
bargains
barge
barge board
barge in
barge master
barge masters
barge pole

Literary usage of Bargaining

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Foundations of National Prosperity: Studies in the Conservation of by Richard Theodore Ely, Charles Kenneth Leith, Ralph Henry Hess, Thomas Nixon Carver (1917)
"Here skill in bargaining counts. Many of the supposed economies of large scale business turn out, upon examination, to be advantages in bargaining rather ..."

2. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1920)
"So far collective bargaining has been collective, it must be admitted, but it has not ... In collective bargaining it is supposed that some or all of the ..."

3. Federalism: The Australian Experience by Cheryl Saunders, J. Isawa Elaigwu, Daniel J. Elazar (1997)
"2.4 Open bargaining bargaining must not only take place among institutions and their ... In fact, bargaining takes place in every political system, ..."

4. Selected Articles on the Closed Shop by Lamar Teney Beman (1921)
"The real motive back of the "open shop" movement, or "American plan," is the disruption of trade unionism, and the defeat of collective bargaining. ..."

5. The Party of the Third Part: The Story of the Kansas Industrial Relations Court by Henry Justin Allen (1921)
"No discussion of labor problems nowadays is complete without a reference to collective bargaining, and there has been some tendency to indorse it with a ..."

6. Legal Recognition of Industrial Women by Eleanor Larrabee Lattimore, Ray Shearer Trent (1919)
"Collective bargaining is the name given to any kind of organization by means of ... Trade unions are one form of collective bargaining; shop committees, ..."

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