Word.ws English Dictionary

bargaining for

bargaining for is the present participle and gerund of bargain for.

Meaning of bargain for

Verb

bargain for (third-person singular simple present bargains for, present participle bargaining for, simple past and past participle bargained for)

  1. (transitive) To count on; to take into consideration.
    • I thought my suggestions would be appreciated, but the backlash is more than I had bargained for.
    Synonyms:
    bargain on

Questions about bargaining for

What is bargaining for the present participle and gerund of?
Bargaining for is the present participle and gerund of bargain for.

Words near bargaining for in the dictionary

  1. bargaining away
  2. bargaining chip
  3. bargaining chips
  4. bargaining counter
  5. bargaining counters
  6. bargaining for
  7. bargaining on
  8. bargaining power
  9. bargaining powers
  10. bargaining unit
  11. bargaining units

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bargaining for (page history and authors); bargain for (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bargaining for.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bargaining_for. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.