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strike a bargain



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Idioms and Phrases

Reach an agreement, as in They finally struck a bargain after weeks of wrangling over who would get what . [Mid-1700s]
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WaFd was able to strike a bargain in its all-stock purchase of Luther Burbank.

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Long before the American Revolution, Washington was eager to add more enslaved workers, especially if he could strike a bargain.

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It also reflected fresh optimism among Senate negotiators who had been haggling over a border enforcement package that they were inching closer together — and a determination by Democrats to show the public that they were doing everything in their power to strike a bargain.

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His efforts to strike a bargain with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un to get rid of that country’s nuclear weapons and to rewrite trade rules with China to favor American interests both failed.

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Democrats and Republicans alike each express confidence they can strike a bargain that funds federal agencies through the remainder of the 2022 fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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