Bargaining
Definition
The act of negotiating a deal (old variant of 'tocmire') and its result; negotiation, agreement, or formal establishment of a price, contract terms, or historical labor obligations. In early Romanian law, it represented the legal or verbal act specifying work duties and tithes between a landowner and a peasant.
Bilingual Equivalents
- Bargaining
- Historical labor agreement
Grammatical & Source Details
| Inflection Type | Feminine noun with standard plural and genitive-dative morphological changes. |
| Formation | Noun of action derived from the archaic verb 'atocmi' using the nominalizing suffix '-re'. |
| Spelling / Pronunciation | [a.ˈtoc.ma.re] |
| Source | Encyclopedia of Old Romanian Customary Law and Social Stratification |
Contextual Usage Examples
RO: După o lungă atocmare la marginea târgului, negustorul a acceptat să vândă grâul la jumătate de preț.
EN: After a long bargaining session at the edge of the market, the merchant agreed to sell the wheat at half price.
RO: Părțile au încheiat o atocmare scrisă în fața vornicului pentru a preveni viitoarele neînțelegeri legate de hotar.
EN: The parties concluded a written agreement before the magistrate to prevent future misunderstandings regarding the border.
RO: Istoricii analizează această atocmare ca pe un exemplu timpuriu de reglementare a muncii agricole.
EN: Historians analyze this labor agreement as an early example of agricultural work regulation.
Idioms & Phrases
Atocmare de munci / Labor agreement / agricultural contract
RO: Învoială istorică prin care țăranii se obligau să presteze zile de clacă pe moșia boierului în schimbul unei vetre de casă.
EN: Historical agreement through which peasants bound themselves to perform corvée days on the boyar's estate in exchange for a homestead.
Carte de atocmare / Deed of agreement / formal contract
RO: Document vechi scris și parafat care consfințea termenii financiari sau comerciali stabiliți între două tabere.
EN: An old written and sealed document validating the financial or commercial terms established between two factions.
Atocmare silită / Forced bargaining / coerced agreement
RO: Negociere inegală impusă de o autoritate feudală, în care termenii erau defavorabili clasei de jos.
EN: An unequal negotiation imposed by a feudal authority, where the terms were unfavorable to the lower class.
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