bargaining chip

1. 1.

   leverage in the form of an inducement or a concession useful in successful negotiations

   Broaderleverage

Questions about bargaining chip

What does bargaining chip mean?

bargaining chip means "leverage in the form of an inducement or a concession useful in successful negotiations".

Is bargaining chip a common word?

bargaining chip is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.