bargain away
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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It’s a good question with good answers: We were not going to bargain away certainty on the nuclear issue for anything else; as France said, there would be no “quid pro quo.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2017
As we bargain away the amount of privacy that an ordinary person expects, we’ve also watched businesses and government figures grow ever more indignant about their own need to be left alone.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2017
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch together warned Nepal not to bargain away justice while negotiating coalition government politics.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2016
“The law says that workers can’t bargain away their rights to the minimum wage, even if they wanted to,” she told me.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2012
“I won’t bargain away my husband or my freedom!”
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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