| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | dick·er |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d k  r |
| INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: dick·ered, dick·er·ing, dick·ers
To bargain; barter. | | NOUN: | The act or process of bargaining. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Probably from dicker, a quantity of ten, ten hides, from Middle English diker, perhaps from Old English *dicor, from Latin decuria, set of ten, from decem, ten. See dek in Appendix I.
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