bargain away

verb

To dispose of in a bargain, usually with a sense of loss or disadvantage.

“to bargain away one's birthright”

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Meanings

verbbargain away (third-person singular simple present bargains away, present participle bargaining away, simple past and past participle bargained away)

present singular third person bargains away · participle present bargaining away · participle past bargained away · past bargained away

  1. To dispose of in a bargain, usually with a sense of loss or disadvantage.

    to bargain away one's birthright

    1 more example

    The heir […] had somehow bargained away the estate.

    1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
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