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bargaining chip
(redirected from bargaining counter)

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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.
See also: bargain, chip
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The proliferation of nuclear weapons is undesirable, but the role of such weapons is as a military deterrent, or as a bargaining counter in diplomatic negotiation.
Today vs. 1935: hyperbole or prescience? by The International Economy
What is less often repeated is that Palmerston's successor in the Foreign Office, Lord Aberdeen, saw Hong Kong, even after the Treaty of Nanking, as little more than a bargaining counter to be used in extracting more concessions from the Qing government.
Sir Henry Pottinger: The First Governor of Hong Kong by Wilson, Lord / Pacific Affairs
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