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dicker

[dik-er] / ˈdɪk ər /


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And Europeans will think that they have a license to dicker with China, too.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023

The celebrity may dicker over the price, but ultimately reach an agreement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

Watching Matt Carpenter dicker and eye-roll over balls and strikes like he's Ted Williams.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2012

But we will cease to bargain and dicker over merit aid awards once offered, including requests to match or exceed another institution’s merit aid offer.

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2011

They had a device that made a loud clicking sound up there in the balcony, and when that noisy dicker sounded, the contestant was supposed to stop singing in midpassage and walk off the stage.

From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman

As the U.S. dickers over decontamination—not to mention reparations or reconciliation—organizers in Palomares promise openness and honesty, despite all the commercial advantages of keeping quiet.

From Time ● Jan. 16, 2015

Perkins says in his office as the city council dickers over his recommendation to find somewhere other than city property to plant Forrest.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Mercantile Trust Co. and the National Bank of Commerce, both in St. Louis, made dickers last week, preliminary to a consolidation.

From Time Magazine Archive

After weeks of maneuvers, dickers, deals and stage-setting.

From Time Magazine Archive

He dickers in animals a little; trains 'em and has 'em doing things right away.

From David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story by George S. Harney

But the deadline elapsed while U.S. and Russian diplomats dickered over the terms.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2016

There he dickered with General Medbouh, the nominal leader of the coup attempt.

From Time Magazine Archive

He dickered with the Navy, in the summer of 1940 landed a $32,800,000 contract for ten submarines.

From Time Magazine Archive

He once dickered with Communism's Ho Chi Minh for armed help in ridding Cambodia of the French.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thinking that it might be possible to secure a canoe from here to Pueblo Viejo, we dickered with a boatman at the wharf.

From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr

The frenzy of last-minute dickering over the new law, SHB 1240, is a sign of its import.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

That opened the process to almost infinite legal dickering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

I enjoyed looking, and I enjoyed considering, and I enjoyed dickering, and now I’m gloating a bit over my new old things.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2022

Such lawsuits “are taking advantage of a loophole” that a new state law would close if Lansing’s lawmakers support it this fall, after more than a year of dickering, LaMacchia said.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 14, 2018

I dart a quick glance toward Miss Duncan, who is still dickering with the carriage driver.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland


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