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Definition: BARGAINED |
BARGAINEDImperative & past participle1. Of Bargain |
Date "BARGAINED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Crosswords: BARGAINED |
| English words defined with "BARGAINED": A pig in a poke ♦ bargain ♦ dicker ♦ To bargain away. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BARGAINED": Devil to Pay and no Pitch Hot ♦ Redlaw. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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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| GERMANY | Nonetheless, some firms, especially in eastern Germany, have refused to join employer associations, or have withdrawn from them, and then bargained independently with workers.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Germany | However, some firms in the eastern part of the country have refused to join employer associations or have withdrawn from them and then bargained independently with workers.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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 52.63% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 42.98% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.39% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 114 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "BARGAINED": outbargained. (additional references) | |
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"BARGAINED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: barajneh, bargaine, bedragoned. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BARGAINED" (pronounced bÄ"rgund) |
| 4 | -g u n d | ligand. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, 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. |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 52 47 41 49 4E 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-. --. .- .. -. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01010010 01000111 01000001 01001001 01001110 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A R G A I N E D |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)363552413543483938 |
| 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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