bargain for/on something

Examples of bargained

bargained

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

For the most part, gifts are only given in the absence of a bargained-for exchange.
Instead, the king bargained with the assembled estates, using a carefully constructed mixture of stick and carrot.
However, as communism evolved power devolved to constituent units who then bargained with the centre for resources.
Intra-family access to land may also come as a counterpart of some service (especially implying labour) and then approximate an intra-family bargained transaction.
She had not bargained for the ways in which society could transform scientific advances into mere instruments for maintaining itself intact.
It was ultimately a contract the price, or purchasing power, of which was permanently bargained between the government and the public.
We also control for the effect of the plan's size (number of participants) and whether the plan is collectively bargained on employee stock holdings.
Lucifer and his followers got more than they bargained for.
We avoid this problem by allowing only the price to be bargained for.
Negotiators bargained over working conditions, wages, and benets for workers, who were organized into a complex array of pay categories.
Trade unions bargained for industry-wide demands, long-term welfare measures, social insurance and labour legislation.
First of all, it was necessary to find out whether the two veto players had similar or different preferences on the issues being bargained over.
Sometimes, support was sufficiently taken-for-granted that no actual election was held; the factional chieftains simply bargained among themselves, in the light of their known bloc of votes.
Committee chairmen, who once authoritatively represented the committee's majority - and could be bargained with accordingly - now represent mostly only themselves.
This gives him an incentive to resist the challenger's demand, to forgo a quick bargained settlement, and to threaten war in the hope that the challenger will back down.
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