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for a bargain price

for a bargain price

1 2.7
At a much lower price than usual
  • idiom
translation icon : a buen precio
  • You can buy quality furniture for a bargain price at that shop downtown.

Examples

  • She managed to find a beautiful dress for a bargain price during the clearance sale.

  • I was once in a Co-op Art Gallery where someone walked in, started amassing a bunch of artwork totaling in the hundreds, if not a thousand dollars, and then started to haggle for a bargain price!

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  • Muni is a local media whipping boy, blamed for everything from the economy to El Niño, when in fact, like most systems, it effectively delivers a huge number of people quickly and safely to their destinations every day, without incident and for a bargain price.

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  • After searching for weeks, he finally bought his dream bike for a bargain price.

Synonyms

for a song
vsfor a bargain price
  • Informal
5.3

It costs very little

is a neutral way to say an item cost much less than usual

Antonyms

expensively
5 3.2

In a way that costs a lot of money

How Cheap

for free
450 1.0
half-price
28 1.1
for a bargain price
1 2.7
low-priced
11 1.0

Surface Forms

for a bargain price positive

Morphology

for + a + bargain + price

The meaning 'at a very low price' is directly and compositionally derived from 'bargain' (something offering good value) combined with 'price' (cost), with 'for' marking the cost paid. This is a common, literal noun-noun construction (bargain price = a price that is a bargain) and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

For a bargain price comes from old market life where buyers and sellers argued until they agreed on a bargain about the price, 'a good deal'. So buying something for a bargain price means getting it much cheaper than usual.