as in bargaining
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as in negotiating
to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase
they dickered over the price of the car for a few minutes
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dickering
Noun
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For Xi, the setting allowed a hard bargaining issue — farm purchases — to be translated into an older symbolic language of harvest that spoke to both domestic and international audiences.—
Xianda Huang,
The Conversation,
16 May 2026 -
Details of the bargaining unit will be finalized over the coming months.—
Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
15 May 2026
Verb
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My experience includes negotiating SB 54 on plastic pollution and writing Proposition 4, which voters approved by a 20% margin to fund clean water, wildfire prevention and climate resilience projects.—
Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards,
Mercury News,
15 May 2026
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Some are negotiating compressed workweeks to reduce commuting days.—
ByBryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
Noun
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The company specializes in using advanced artificial intelligence, including specialized agents and Large Language Models, to automate contract authoring, negotiation, and risk management.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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Labor unions representing about half the system’s workers announced the walkout after negotiations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ended Friday without a new contract.—
Mirna Alsharif,
NBC news,
16 May 2026
Verb
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In Scotland, Labor's difficulties were laid bare as John Swinney secured a decisive victory, dealing a further blow to Starmer’s authority.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2026
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Around him, siblings, lovers and friends face CIA threats, tourist-rental anxieties, drug-dealing producers, secret desire and lottery dreams in a choral portrait of love, family and frustrated escape.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
11 May 2026
Noun
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The haggling was still going on at deadline.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
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This prospect adds urgency to the seemingly endless haggling among states along the river over a new agreement on sharing its water.—
Mark Gongloff,
Mercury News,
21 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The letter also repeated other arguments, including that the transaction would better allow Paramount to compete at scale against Netflix.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
12 May 2026
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The comptroller suggested that one impact on real property transactions could be initially positive if there is a wave of sales to avoid the tax.—
Trevor Laurence Jockims,
CNBC,
12 May 2026
Noun
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Taiwanese legislators subsequently approved a $25 billion special defense budget on Friday, a move the senators pointed to as a sign the island is living up to its end of the bargain.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
11 May 2026
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In fairness, so did everyone else, and with the signing window coming to a close, the White Sox were able to nab Murakami for a (now bargain) two-year, $34 million deal.—
Bill Madden,
New York Daily News,
9 May 2026
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“Dickering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dickering. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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