The phrase "attempt to bargain" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing efforts to negotiate or reach an agreement, often in a financial or transactional context.
Example: "During the meeting, we made an attempt to bargain for a better price on the contract."
Alternatives: "try to negotiate" or "make a deal."
"Palmer United is firm and will not change despite the government's attempt to bargain and offer us the opportunity to make changes to the proposed legislation.
He calls it "protectionism".While I don't begrudge the right for unions to form and attempt to bargain, I also don't begrudge the right of management the say, "FU, we're going somewhere else".
Mr. Johnson has also thrown his support behind a new lobbying group, Change Britain, introduced over the weekend and intended to maintain pressure on the prime minister to have what is known as a "hard exit" from the European Union, with control over immigration and no attempt to bargain with it to preserve duty-free access to the single European market of 500 million people.
The above text is perhaps one of the most famous examples of negotiation in the Biblical text: Abraham's attempt to bargain with God over the fate of the people of Sodom.
Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's chief Brexit negotiator, said he would not accept any attempt to bargain on trade issues using Britain's military and intelligence strength as leverage.
Weighing our options, we attempt to bargain: "Can we just portage the dam and get back in the river?" we ask, looking at a launch point not far downstream.
Other states have been attempting to bargain for a partial expansion of Medicaid, although they have largely been met by rejection from the administration.
He saw at once that previous, piecemeal attempts to bargain among member states about the reduction of non-tariff barriers were doomed to be inadequate; the problem had to be tackled comprehensively.
When one subsequently vanishes, the others begin roaming dark woods and shadowy reference libraries with torches, attempting to bargain with a figure who strikes the eye as less disturbing than Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Conveying your negotiation strategy effectively through a third-party translator, or even attempting to bargain with someone when either you or your counterpart do not speak the language being used in the negotiation, presents a myriad of challenges that involve both cultural appreciation and advanced negotiation strategies and techniques.
