bargaining chip

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Noun

bargaining chip (plural bargaining chips)

  1. Someone or something used as a leverage in negotiations.
    Synonym: bargaining counter
    • 1984 October 21, Walter Mondale, 1984 U.S. Presidential Debate:
      As a matter of fact, we have a vast range of technology and weaponry right now that provides all the bargaining chips that we need.
    • 2012 October 27, “Afghanistan: Towards a better land”, in The Economist‎[1], London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 December 2016:
      The money separately pledged to the security forces must not become a bargaining chip — it was after Russia cut off such cash that the government in Kabul fell in 1992.
    • 2022 December 15, Patrick Wintour, “Why Crimea is Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s greatest bargaining chip”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2026:
      Why Crimea is Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s greatest bargaining chip [title]

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