bargain away

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bargain away

(tr, adverb) to lose or renounce (freedom, rights, etc) in return for something valueless or of little value

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w>bargain away

vt sep rights, advantage etc → sich (dat) → abhandeln lassen; freedom, independence also → veräußern

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Few observers believe the North Korean leader will bargain away lightly what he sees as a guarantee of his dynastic regime's survival.

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No one should expect, therefore, that Iran will be inclined to bargain away the political survival of a person it deems vital to its own foreign policy interests.

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Finally, it is asserted that it is impossible for collective bargaining to function as it should with statutory and extra-statutory government intervention on the horizon; why bargain away something which, hopefully, government intervention of one ort or another might later grant?

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Former President Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani is understood to have long advocated an entirely different approach--namely to bargain away Iran's nuclear program and close a profitable deal for the Islamic Republic.