dicker
verb (used without object)
to deal, swap, or trade with petty bargaining; bargain; haggle.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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Thus he has dickered with the oldtime monarchists and permitted the return of some of the liberal survivors of the republic he destroyed 20 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
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