dicker
pronunciation
How to pronounce dicker in British English:
UK [ˈdɪkə(r)]
How to pronounce dicker in American English:
US [ˈdɪkɚ]
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- Verb:
- negotiate the terms of an exchange
Word Origin
- dicker (v.)
- "haggle, bargain in a petty way," 1802, American English, perhaps from dicker (n.) "a unit or package of tens," especially hides (attested from late 13c.), perhaps from Latin decuria "parcel of ten" (supposedly a unit of barter on the Roman frontier; compare German Decher "set of ten things"), from decem "ten" (see ten) on model of centuria from centum.
Example
- 1. In 2004 and 2005 , goldman sachs made $ 1.5 billion a year trading oil , dicker says .
- 2. Adam dicker has extensive experience and domaining expertise .
- 3. We are aiming at the lower price , the higher quality , the more amount , then please not dicker , thank you !
- 4. Dicker notes that libya produces only 1.3 million barrels of oil a day , just a tiny fraction of the world oil market .
- 5. Dicker believes it is largely because large financial firms with a direct interest in oil trading have made so much money with oil that they can afford to lobby congress to block any significant reforms .