bargain away

English

Verb

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 […], volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
  The heir […] had somehow bargained away the estate.

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