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striking a bargain

striking a bargain is the present participle and gerund of strike a bargain.

Meaning of strike a bargain

Verb

strike a bargain (third-person singular simple present strikes a bargain, present participle striking a bargain, simple past struck a bargain, past participle struck a bargain or (rare or archaic) stricken a bargain)

  1. To enter into a bargain; to agree upon the conditions of a sale or other transaction.
    • And they gladly embraced the treaty, and struck a bargain with him [Judas Iscariot], that he should have thirty shekels to deliver him [Jesus] up without much noise,1659, Henry Hammond, chapter 22, in A Paraphrase and Annotations upon All the Books of the New Testament, London: Richard Davis, The Gospel according to S. Luke, page 257
    Synonyms:
    make a deal

Questions about striking a bargain

What is striking a bargain the present participle and gerund of?
Striking a bargain is the present participle and gerund of strike a bargain.

Words near striking a bargain in the dictionary

  1. strikethroughing
  2. strikethroughs
  3. Striketober
  4. strikin'
  5. striking
  6. striking a bargain
  7. striking a blow
  8. striking a chord
  9. striking a false note
  10. striking a light
  11. striking a medium

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