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struck a bargain

struck a bargain is the simple past and past participle 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 struck a bargain

What is struck a bargain the simple past and past participle of?
Struck a bargain is the simple past and past participle of strike a bargain.

Words near struck a bargain in the dictionary

  1. Struble
  2. Strubles
  3. strubs
  4. struck
  5. struck a balance
  6. struck a bargain
  7. struck a blow
  8. struck a chord
  9. struck a false note
  10. struck a light
  11. struck a medium

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