dicker
verb (used without object)
to deal, swap, or trade with petty bargaining; bargain; haggle.
dickered
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past participleof dicker.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof dicker.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
dickerverb (used without object)to deal, swap, or trade with petty bargaining; bargain; haggle.
Example Sentences
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But the deadline elapsed while U.S. and Russian diplomats dickered over the terms.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2016
For a time the network dickered with Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner, producers of The Cosby Show and Roseanne, but negotiations fell through.
From Time Magazine Archive
And when Carnegie dickered with the late, great J. P. Morgan to sink Carnegie Steel into the new U. S. Steel, it was Lawyer Reed who drew the mortgages which secured the bonds.
From Time Magazine Archive
There he dickered with General Medbouh, the nominal leader of the coup attempt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, I dickered the things off at a good price, as I was a-saying, and have got the money safe in my bosom—a hiding-place sacred to myself alone.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
