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has been dickering
  • present perfect progressive of dicker (3rd person singular).

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For weeks, Bolivia has been dickering with the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

The U.S. could also refuse to sell Saudi Arabia some 30 Phantom jets it has been dickering for.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next morning Washington finds the Congress has been dickering for peace with Howe behind his back.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he is finally released his confreres suspect that he has been dickering with city slickers to throw the game.

From Time Magazine Archive

There's the wad of land that New Jersey crowd has been dickering for.

From Burning Daylight by London, Jack