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 Bar·gain n.
 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. [Obs.] --Swift.
 To strike a bargain, to reach or ratify an agreement. “A bargain was struck.” --Macaulay.
 Syn: -- Contract; stipulation; purchase; engagement.