0 present participle of dicker
1 to argue with someone, especially about the price of goods:
There was constant dickering over accounts.
People who are really interested in progressive thought cannot afford the energy—or even the frivolity—to spend their time "dickering"with things which need not be"dickered" with.
I found a tendency to stress things which have a certain amount of popularity, such as woodwork and little dickerings in motors.
No doubt there will be dickering backwards and forwards.
It is not a question of dickering.
Dickering refers to the same process, albeit with a slight negative (petty) connotation.