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bargaining chip |
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a bargaining chip (British, American & Australian, British) something that you can use to make someone do what you want. The workers' strongest bargaining chip in the negotiations is the threat of strike action. Hostages were used as a bargaining counter during the seige. |
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23 robbery at Snooky's, a bar with bikini-clad dancers, as savagery in which victims' lives were used as bargaining chips to force the owner to open the safe. In "Hostages to Fortune," a couple uses their children as bargaining chips in their troubled marriage. The government and contractor project team is committed to the fact that quality and reliability must be planned for and appropriately budgeted; they cannot be bargaining chips and their levels cannot be compromised. |
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