agreement vs bargain

agreement

noun
  • A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law. 

  • Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts. 

  • An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct. 

  • A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another. 

bargain

noun
  • An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration. 

  • An item purchased for significantly less than the usual, or recommended, price 

  • A gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase. 

  • The thing stipulated or purchased. 

  • An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge. 

verb
  • To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade 

  • To make a bargain; to make a deal or contract for the exchange of property or services; to negotiate 

How often have the words agreement and bargain occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )