[ UK /dˈɪkɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈdɪkɝ/ ]
VERB
  1. negotiate the terms of an exchange
    We bargained for a beautiful rug in the bazaar
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How To Use dicker In A Sentence

  • Thus equipped as an itinerant clock repairer, and having a few watches to "dicker" with, he started on foot for Jenkintown, a small place twelve miles from The Expressman and the Detective
  • Dicker said those people who were living away from the community were able to send a vote by proxy.
  • ‘Let's not dicker over minor issues,’ says Prof. Zhang Yansheng of Beijing's Central University of Finance and Economics.
  • She dickered with the farmer for the best fruit.
  • If the price is $30, and Coburn wants to pay $25, she will offer $20, allowing room for dickering.
  • She studies up on car prices and features before she starts dickering to buy an automobile.
  • And while chivalry committed suicide over its ladies 'gloves, the stout, wooden-headed burghers, with an eye to the facts of life, dickered and bickered in trade. The Kempton-Wace Letters
  • One of their snipers is poised to take a shot at the Afghan who appears to be pointing out their exact position to the insurgents, a possible "dicker". Army Rumour Service
  • Though only 2 percent of respondents dickered online, those who did were just as successful overall as the in-store negotiators. Haggling works--even online, says our poll
  • The "dicker" was a neighbour who had apparantly watched closely morning after morning from his bedroom window noting every action of someone with whom he was on first name terms. Army Rumour Service
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