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DICKER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Negotiate the terms of an exchange

Example:

We bargained for a beautiful rug in the bazaar

Synonyms:

bargain; dicker

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "dicker" is one way to...):

negociate; negotiate; talk terms (discuss the terms of an arrangement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dicker"):

chaffer; haggle; higgle; huckster (wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

Sam and Sue dicker

Sam wants to dicker with Sue

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