bargainer

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bar·gain

(bär′gĭn)

1. An agreement between parties fixing obligations that each promises to carry out. See Synonyms at agreement.

a. An agreement establishing the terms of a sale or exchange of goods or services: reached a bargain with the antique dealer over the lamp.

b. Property acquired or services rendered as a result of such an agreement.

3. Something offered or acquired at a price advantageous to the buyer: That silk dress is a bargain at that price.

v. bar·gained, bar·gain·ing, bar·gains

v.intr.

1. To negotiate the terms of an agreement, as to sell or exchange.

2. To engage in collective bargaining.

3. To arrive at an agreement.

v.tr.

To exchange; trade: bargained my watch for a meal.

Phrasal Verb:

bargain for (or on)

To count on; expect: "I never bargained for this tearing feeling inside me" (Anne Tyler).

Idiom:

into/in the bargain

Over and above what is expected; in addition.

[Middle English, from Old French bargaigne, haggling, from bargaignier, to haggle, of Germanic origin; see bhergh- in Indo-European roots.]

bar′gain·er n.

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Noun	1.	bargainer - someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold dealer, monger, trader art dealer - a dealer in works of art requiring esthetic evaluation barterer - a trader who exchanges goods and not money bibliopole, bibliopolist - a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) cheesemonger - someone who sells cheese barrow-boy, barrow-man, costermonger - a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow cutler - a dealer in cutlery draper - a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods) fence - a dealer in stolen property fishmonger, fishwife - someone who sells fish horse trader - a hard bargainer hardwareman, ironmonger - someone who sells hardware; "in England they call a hardwareman an ironmonger" mercer - a dealer in textiles (especially silks) merchandiser, merchant - a businessperson engaged in retail trade seedman, seedsman - a dealer in seeds slopseller, slop-seller - a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing stamp dealer - a dealer in stamps (whose customers are stamp collectors) stock trader - someone who buys and sells stock shares
	2.	bargainer - negotiator of the terms of a transaction; "he is a hard bargainer" haggler - an intense bargainer negotiant, negotiator, treater - someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement)

Translations

bargainer

[ˈbɑː^rgɪnə^r] n (= negotiator) → négociateur/trice m/f
to be a hard bargainer → être un redoutable négociateurbargain hunter bargain-hunter n → personne f à l'affût des bonnes occasions

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bargainer

n to be a good/bad bargainer → handeln/nicht handeln können; (in negotiations) → gut/nicht gut verhandeln können; to be a hard bargainer → hart handeln or (in negotiations) → verhandeln

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

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The illustrious Tamaahmaah, as we have shown on a former occasion, was a shrewd bargainer, and in the present instance proved himself an experienced wrecker.

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There were some things Matthew could buy and prove himself no mean bargainer; but he knew he would be at the mercy of shopkeepers when it came to buying a girl's dress.

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And now there is no need for you, bargainer though you are, to be furiously angry.'

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Rebecca was entirely surprised at the sight of the comfortable old house where she had met with no small kindness, ransacked by brokers and bargainers, and its quiet family treasures given up to public desecration and plunder.

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