bargain away
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[edit]bargain away (third-person singular simple present bargains away, present participle bargaining away, simple past and past participle bargained away)
- To dispose of in a bargain, usually with a sense of loss or disadvantage.
- to bargain away one's birthright
- 1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
- The heir […] had somehow bargained away the estate.