as in dealing
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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The two players have been negotiating deals with Cincinnati to keep them with the organization for years to come.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
15 Mar. 2025 -
The company is negotiating with strategic investors and commercial lenders to provide additional capital for the expansion of HOPE clinics.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
14 Mar. 2025
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The foot-dragging led Parker and Stone to flex their power, including by threatening legal action against Shell and RedBird Capital over allegedly manipulating negotiations with rivals to lower the price for Paramount.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Aug. 2025
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Thomas Posey of Posey Associates helps leaders build high-performance partnerships through strategic negotiation and scenario work.—
Thomas Posey,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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For some bargaining units, like the California Association of State Attorneys and Administrative Law Judges, the change came less than a month after the union started bargaining a new contract with the state.—
William Melhado,
Sacramento Bee,
5 Mar. 2025
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As Philadelphia systematically destroyed Kansas City on Sunday, Eagles fans were no doubt too … ebullient to pay much attention to the ads, while Chiefs supporters no doubt spent the commercial breaks bargaining with God or dousing themselves with Arthur Bryant‘s Barbecue Sauce for luck.—
Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2025
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Foreign governments are watching closely to see how Trump reacts to Putin, likely gauging what the interaction might mean for their own dealings with the U.S. president, who has eschewed traditional diplomacy for his own transactional approach to relationships.—
Michelle L. Price,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Aug. 2025
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Personal wheeling and dealing is outside the bounds of anticorruption regulation.—
MICHAEL JOHNSTON,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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When users want to send cryptocurrency, the wallet software uses the private key to digitally sign a transaction message.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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The victim told the detective an employee of a credit card company told him who made the fraudulent transaction.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
12 Aug. 2025
Noun
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All buses are wheelchair lift-equipped and service runs seven days a week throughout Panama City Beach for the bargain price of $1.50 per ride.—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Aug. 2025
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Pivetta has been quite a bargain for the Padres — at least in the immediate term.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Dickering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dickering. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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