verb
- to bargain or negotiate, especially in a petty or persistent way
Usage: informal
noun
- a unit of ten, especially ten hides or skins
Usage: archaic; trade
Examples
- The customer dickered with the salesman over the price of the car.
- They spent an hour dickering about who would pay for dinner.
- She refused to dicker and paid the asking price immediately.
- The merchants would dicker over every transaction at the market.
- He bought a dicker of leather hides from the tanner.
- The old trading post sold goods by the dicker.