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bargaining chip
(redirected from bargaining chips)

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bar·gain·ing chip (bärg-nng)
n.
Something, especially an inducement or concession, used as leverage in negotiations: "A bargaining chip is ultimately worthless if you're not willing to bargain it away" (New Republic).
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Noun1.bargaining chip - leverage in the form of an inducement or a concession useful in successful negotiations
leverage - strategic advantage; power to act effectively; "relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage"


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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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