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BARGAINED

Definition: BARGAINED

BARGAINED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Bargain

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BARGAINED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

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Crosswords: BARGAINED

English words defined with "BARGAINED": A pig in a pokebargaindickerTo bargain away. (references)
Specialty definitions using "BARGAINED": Devil to Pay and no Pitch HotRedlaw. (references)

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Modern Usage: BARGAINED

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It can't be bargained with. (The Terminator; writing credit: James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd, Harlan Ellison)

He successfully plea bargained 44 cases in 9 months. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Yeah? I'll tell you what. Until I get back my five thousand dollars, you're gonna get more than you bargained for. I'm your goddamn partner! (Raiders of the Lost Ark; writing credit: George Lucas; Philip Kaufman)

Lyrics

Givin' all the freaks what they bargained for ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang)

Movie/TV Titles

He Got More Than He Bargained For (1899)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: BARGAINED

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bargained for Exchange (reference)

  • Governing Italy: The Politics of Bargained Pluralism (reference)

  • Joint Trust Pension Plans: Understanding and Administering Collectively Bargained Multiemployer Plans Under Erisa (Pension Research Council Pub Ser) (reference)

  • More Than He Bargained for (Silhouette Special Edition, No 829) (reference)

  • More Than She Bargained for (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BARGAINED

SubjectTopicQuote

Political Economy

GERMANY

Nonetheless, some firms, especially in eastern Germany, have refused to join employer associations, or have withdrawn from them, and then bargained independently with workers. (references)

Worker Rights

Gabon

The Labor Code provides for collective bargaining by industry, not by firm; collectively bargained agreements set wages for whole industries. (references)

Germany

However, some firms in the eastern part of the country have refused to join employer associations or have withdrawn from them and then bargained independently with workers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BARGAINED

"BARGAINED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 52.63% of the time. "BARGAINED" is used about 114 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)52.63%6043,597
Lexical Verb (past tense)42.98%4948,677
Adjective (general or positive)4.39%5157,705
                    Total100.00%114N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BARGAINED

Language Translations for "BARGAINED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

讲价 (Bargaining, haggle). (various references)

   

German

  

marktete, handelte (acted, traded). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πηγαίνω για μαλλί και βγαίνω κουρεμένος (get more than one bargained). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megkapja a magáét (have one's gruel, have only got one's deserts, to get in the neck, to get more than sy bargained for, to get one's gruel), alaposan megkapja a magáét (to get more than sy bargained for). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

흥 을 하". (various references)

   

Manx

  

barganit. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

argainedbay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: BARGAINED

Derivations

Words ending with "BARGAINED": outbargained. (additional references)


Misspellings

"BARGAINED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: barajneh, bargaine, bedragoned. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BARGAINED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "BARGAINED" (pronounced bÄ"rgund)
4-g u n dligand.
3-u n dabandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cottoned, cushioned, dampened, darkened, decommissioned, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fashioned, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, lightened, likened, listened, livened, loosened, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, millisecond, moistened, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reconditioned, reexamined, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, second, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, stationed, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: BARGAINED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gabardine.

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-g-i-n-r"

-1 letter: abrading, badinage, bandager, bearding, bigarade, breading, drainage, gardenia.

-2 letters: abridge, anergia, araneid, bandage, barding, bargain, beading, bearing, brained, brigade, brigand, deraign, gradine, grained, reading.

-3 letters: abider, abrade, agenda, airbag, baaing, badger, bander, banged, banger, barged, baring, begird, binder, binged, binger, bridge, brined, danger, daring, denari, dinger, earing, engird, gained, gainer, gander, garbed, garden, girned, graben, gradin, inbred, indaba, radian, rained, ranged, reagin, rebind, reding, regain, regina, riband, ringed.

-4 letters: abide, adage, again, agria, aider, aired, anear, anger, ardeb, arena, baaed, badge, bairn, baned, barde, bared, barge, beard, began, begin, being, bider, binge, braid, brain, brand, bread, bride, brine, bring, deair, debar, deign, denar, dinar, diner, dinge, dirge, drain, garni, gibed, giber, grade, grain, grana, grand, gride, grind, irade, nadir, naiad, naira, rabid, raged, range, ranid, rebid, redan, redia, regna, reign, renig, ridge.

-5 letters: abed, abri, agar, aged, ager, agin, aide, airn, anga, area, aria, arid, bade, band, bane, bang, bani, bard, bare, barn, bead, bean, bear, bend, berg, bide, bier, bind, bine, bird, brad, brae, brag, bran, bred, bren, brie, brig, brin, dang, darb, dare, darn, dean, dear, deni, dine, ding, dire, drab, drag, dreg, drib, earn, egad, gadi, gaed, gaen, gain, gane, garb, gear, gibe, gied, gien, gird, girn, gnar, grab, grad, gran, grid, grin, idea, ired, nabe, nada, nard, near, nerd, nide, raga, rage, ragi, raia, raid, rain, rand, rang, rani, read, rein, rend, ride, rind, ring.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-e-g-i-n-r"
 

+1 letter: brigandage, gabardines.

 

+2 letters: brigandages, grandbabies.

 

+3 letters: outbargained.

 

+4 letters: breadboarding, decarbonating, radiolabeling, skateboarding.

 

+5 letters: biodegradation, radiolabelling, rebroadcasting, skateboardings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BARGAINED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 41 52 47 41 49 4E 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-    .-.    --.    .-    ..    -.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01010010 01000111 01000001 01001001 01001110 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#82 &#71 &#65 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0052 0047 0041 0049 004E 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

363552413543483938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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