Bargain-hunting

Definition

bargain /'bɑ:gǝn/ n ~ (with sb) ၁။ (ႏွစ္ဦးႏွစ္ဖက္) အေပးအယူ။ make/strike a bargain with sb ❍ If you promote our goods, we will give you a good discount as our part of the bargain. ❍ The bargain they reached with their employers was to reduce their wage claim in return for a shorter working week. ❍ I've done what I promised and I expect you to keep your side of the bargain (ie do what you agreed in return). ❍ A bargain's a bargain (ie When an agreement has been reached, it should be kept). ၂။ ေလွ်ာ့ေဈး။ goods at bargain prices ❍ pick up a good bargain ❍ The car was a bargain at that price. ❍ You must admit that I'm offering you a bargain. v ~ (with sb) (about/over/for sth) ေဈးဆစ္သည္။ ညိႇသည္။ Never pay the advertised price for a car—always try to bargain. ❍ Dealers bargain with growers over the price of coffee. ❍ The unions bargained (with management) for a shorter working week. ❏ bargain sth away [ PHRV ] [ဥ] ေရာင္းစားသည္။ The leaders bargained away the freedom of their people. ❏ bargain basement n ဆိုင္ႀကီးကနားႀကီးတြင္ ပစၥည္းကို ေလွ်ာ့ေဈးျဖင့္ ေရာင္းထုတ္ရာေျမေအာက္ခန္း။ bargain basement offers/prices. ❏ bargain for sth; bargain on sth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) (…) ထင္ထားသည္၊ ေမွ်ာ္မွန္းထားသည္။ The exam was more difficult than I had bargained for. ❍ The thieves didn't bargain on the guard dogs patrolling the warehouse. ❍ When the minister agreed to answer questions on television, he got more than he (had) bargained for. ❏ bargain-hunting n [U] ပစၥည္းေဈးေပါရာလိုက္ရွာျခင္း။ ❏ into the bargain ; US also in the bargain [ IDM ] ( infml ) သည့္အျပင္။ ထို႔ျပင္လည္းပဲ။ ၿပီးေတာ့။ She was a distinguished scientist—and a gifted painter into the bargain.

Examples

1. You should be able to pick up a few good bargains.
2. Twenty pounds is a real bargain!
3. After hours of negotiating
4. a bargain was finally reached.
5. [keep your side/end/part of the bargain] : How do we know you’ll keep your part of the bargain?
6. [strike a bargain] : It was impossible to strike a bargain that both sides would accept.