Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - bargain

~1 n 1 something bought cheaply or for less than its usual price  (I might buy a TV, if I can find a bargain in the sales. | be a bargain)  (These shoes are a bargain at $22. | bargain holiday/clothes/prices etc (=a holiday etc that is very cheap) | bargain hunting (=looking for things to buy at a cheap price))  (a bargain hunting housewife at the January sales) 2 an agreement, made between two people or groups, to do something in return for something else  (make a bargain)  (We've made a bargain that he'll do the shopping and I'll cook. | drive a hard bargain (=succeed in making an agreement that is very much to your advantage))  (Fischer was determined to drive a hard bargain. | keep your side of the bargain (=do what you promised as part of an agreement) | strike a bargain (=reach an agreement))  (Management and unions have struck a bargain over wage increases.) 3 into the bargain especially BrE in addition to everything else  (He was short, fat, and spotty into the bargain.) 4 make the best of a bad bargain to do the best you can under difficult conditions - bargainer n  (a wage bargainer)  (- see cheap1) ~2 v to discuss the conditions of a sale, agreement etc + for  (bargaining for better pay) bargain for sth phr v also bargain on sth  (T usually in negatives) to expect that something will happen and make it part of your plans  (We hadn't bargained for such heavy rain, and got really wet. | bargain on doing sth)  (We can't bargain on finding the right house straight away. | more than you bargained for (=more than you expected))  (His wife's angry reaction was more than he bargained for!)