dicker
verb (used without object)
to deal, swap, or trade with petty bargaining; bargain; haggle.
was dickering
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past progressiveof dicker.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Kaiser-Frazer Corp. was dickering to build Fairchild C-119 transports at Willow Run; even General Motors was said to have a deal cooking to build Republic F-84 jet fighters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since Knox died in 1944, New Englanders have swapped many a rumor about his papers: Hearst was dickering for them; the Gannett chain was knocking at the door; Scripps-Howard would move in.
From Time Magazine Archive
While Penney minded the store, his company was dickering to buy Aldens, Inc., a Chicago-based mail-order house and discount chain with 1960 sales of $126 million.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moscow was dickering with West Germany for 250,000 tons of flour.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was dickering for one of the things he had desired for a life-time.
From The Unpublishable Memoirs by A. S. W. Rosenbach
