Noun

1. 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.

   A contract is a bargain that is legally binding. --Wharton.

2. An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
   • And whon your honors mean to solemnize The bargain of your faith. --Shak.
3. A purchase; also (when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.
4. The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.
   • She was too fond of her most filthy bargain. --Shak.

{Bargain and sale} (Law), a species of conveyance, by which the bargainor contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase; i. e., the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession. --Blackstone.

{Into the bargain}, over and above what is stipulated;besides.

{To sell bargains}, to make saucy (usually indelicate) repartees. --Jonathan Swift.

{To strike a bargain}, to reach or ratify an agreement. ``A bargain was struck. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay.

Verb

1. To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.

   So worthless peasants bargain for their wives. --.

2. To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.