DICKER


Meaning of DICKER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪkə(r) ]

( dickers, dickering, dickered)

If you say that people are dickering about something, you mean that they are arguing or disagreeing about it, often in a way that you think is foolish or unnecessary. ( mainly AM )

Management and labor are dickering over pay, benefits and working conditions...

He may be expecting us to dicker. Don’t.

V-RECIP : pl-n V over/about n , V ( non-recip ), also pl-n V [ disapproval ]

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