Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who bargains or stipulates; specifically, in law, the party in a contract who stipulates to sell and convey property to another by bargain and sale. In the latter sense also spelled
bargainor .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of
bargainor .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who makes a
bargain
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
- noun negotiator of the terms of a transaction
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Examples
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Here's a guy who's what I call a bargainer who's giving whites the benefit of the doubt.
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Mr. Obama, by contrast, is what Mr. Steele describes as a bargainer, a black who appeals to the white majority by agreeing not to play up the nation's shameful racial history in return for not having his skin color held against him.
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BARGAIN [1] AND SALE, in English law, a contract whereby property, real or personal, is transferred from one person -- called the bargainer -- to another -- called the bargainee -- for a [v. 03 p. 0399] valuable consideration; but the term is more particularly used to describe a mode of conveyance of lands.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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SHELBY STEELE: A bargainer is a black who enters the American, the white American mainstream by saying to whites in effect, in some code form, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt.
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Shelby Steele framed the criticism in its harshest terms, describing Obama as a "bargainer" or "a black who says to whites, 'I will never presume that you are racist if you will not hold my race against me.'"
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Shelby Steele framed the criticism in its harshest terms, describing Obama as a "bargainer" or "a black who says to whites, 'I will never presume that you are racist if you will not hold my race against me.'"
'Postracial' America, One Year Later Jamie Holmes 2010
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Steele states that, in the African American community, there are two types of people -- the "bargainer" and the "challenger."
Irene Monroe: The Conversation America Won't Have on Race 2009
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Shelby Steele framed the criticism in its harshest terms, describing Obama as a "bargainer" or "a black who says to whites, 'I will never presume that you are racist if you will not hold my race against me.'"
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He is a "bargainer" :he has an implicit agreement with majority white America to not hold racism against them in exchange for it not holding his being black against him.
It's a real phenomenon: conservatives for Obama. Ann Althouse 2008
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He is a "bargainer": he has an implicit agreement with majority white America to not hold racism against them in exchange for it not holding his being black against him.
"These accusations that Bill Clinton is a racist I think is just wrong. I just don’t agree with it." Ann Althouse 2008
vendingmachine commented on the word bargainer
This political style these men employ Shelby Steele depicts it best in his book, A Bound Man. Steele states that, in the African-American community, there are two types of people -- the "bargainer" and the "challenger."
A bargainer strikes a bargain with white America in which they say. "I will not rub America's ugly history of racism in our face if you will not hold my race against me."
A challenger, on the other hand, does the opposite of a "bargainer." A "challenger" charges white people with inherent racism and then demands they prove themselves innocent by supporting black-friendly polices like affirmative action and diversity.
May 6, 2015