dicker
verb (used without object)
to deal, swap, or trade with petty bargaining; bargain; haggle.
are dickering
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present progressiveof dicker.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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While revelers cavort in colorful joy, their hosts are dickering over profits, festival names and even the ingredients of the powders they sell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2013
Japanese manufacturers are dickering with India for component parts for sewing machines, autos, radios and bicycles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Commuter airlines in Italy, France, England and Sweden are dickering for YAKs with Aviaexport, the Soviet aircraft export agency.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inter-Continental is even represented behind the Iron Curtain with Zagreb's Esplanade, and emissaries are dickering with Hungarian Communists about helping to run a hotel in Budapest.
From Time Magazine Archive
For one thing, they are dickering for a lot more rack space in the nation's supermarkets.
From Time Magazine Archive
