Bargain

bär′gin, n. a contract or agreement: a favourable transaction: an advantageous purchase: ( Shak. ) chaffering.— v.i. to make a contract or agreement: to chaffer: to count on, take into consideration (with for ): to lose by bad bargaining (with away ).— n. Bar′gainer .— Bargain and sale , in law, a mode of conveyance whereby property may be a igned or transferred for valuable consideration.— Into the bargain , over and above; To make the best of a bad bargain , to make the best of difficult circumstances; To sell any one a bargain ( Shak. ), to befool him; To strike a bargain , to come to terms about a purchase. [O. Fr. bargaigner —Low L. bar can i are ; acc. to Diez from barca , a boat.]