bargaining chip

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bargaining chip

Fig. something to be used (traded) in negotiations. I want to use their refusal to meet our terms as a bargaining chip in future negotiations. I need to have a few bargaining chips ready when we get down to drawing up the contract.

See also: bargain, chip

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5 (ANI): An editorial in a South Korean daily has warned that North Korea could use the release of two American journalists as a direct bargaining chip with the United States in the near future. Clinton's North Korea trip may prove costly for the US by Asian News International Bargaining chip' Analysts say the sentences appeared unusually harsh and seemed to back up views that the journalists could be used as a bargaining chip by the North in its nuclear standoff with the US. Bill Clinton in North Korean talks by Aljazeera.net The 60-year-old Hamas official was one of the key bargaining chips Israel hoped to use as leverage in efforts to secure the release of captive soldier Gilad Shalit. Freedom at last for Dwaik by Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)			bang in bang into bang on bang out bang the drum bang up banish from some place bank bank on bank up banker banker's hours baptism baptism of fire bar bar from some place bar none bare bare heart bare soul bare to bare-bones barf out bargain bargain for bargaining chip barge barge in barge into bark bark at bark is worse than bite bark out at bark up the wrong tree barking dog never bites barking up the wrong tree barn barrel barrel along barrel in barrel of fun barrel out barter barter away barter for barter off barter with base base on base opinion on bash			bargained away bargained for bargained for bargained for bargained on bargained on bargained on Bargainee Bargainee bargainer bargainer bargainer bargainer bargainers bargainers bargainers bargaining bargaining bargaining bargaining Bargaining Agent Bargaining Agent Bargaining Agent Bargaining Agents Bargaining Agents Bargaining Agents bargaining away bargaining away bargaining away Bargaining Board bargaining chip bargaining chips bargaining counter bargaining counters bargaining for bargaining for bargaining for bargaining level bargaining on bargaining on bargaining on Bargaining Organisation for Technical and Basic Services Bargaining Power bargaining scope Bargaining theory Bargaining theory Bargaining Union Status Bargaining unit Bargaining unit Bargaining unit Bargaining Unit Benefits Board Bargaining Unit Designator Bargaining Unit Employee Bargaining Unit Faculty Member Bargaining Unit Member Bargaining Units Bargaining Units Bargaining Units, Bargaining Units, Bargaining, Collective Bargaining, Collective

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