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bargaining chip
(redirected from bargaining counter)

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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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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.
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.
 
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