dickers
Bargains over cost
Dickers is the third-person singular of dicker, meaning to haggle or negotiate over small matters: She dickers with vendors at the flea market every weekend.
Dickering suggests back-and-forth bargaining, often over trivial amounts or minor terms.
The word has an informal, slightly old-fashioned feel.
Favorable purchase price
- barterDirect goods-for-goods exchange
- chafferNegotiate over price
- wrangleArgue or herd livestock
- negotiateDiscuss to reach agreement
quibble · haggle · dispute · argue · bicker · squabble · palter · higgle
Exchange one for another
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
- tradeExchange of commodities
- dealAgreement or distribution
- transactionExchange of goods/money
barter · commerce · merchandise · goods · wares · commodities · vendors · traders
Resolved dispute or colony
- compromiseAgreement through mutual sacrifice
- accordHarmony between parties
- dealAgreement or distribution
- termsConditions of an agreement
arrangement · understanding · concession · middle ground · give-and-take · handshake · contract · pact
bargain
Favorable purchase price
negotiate · quibble · haggle · dispute · argue · bicker · squabble · palter · higgle · beat down
swap
Exchange one for another
transaction · barter · commerce · merchandise · goods · wares · commodities · vendors · traders · marketplace
settlement
Resolved dispute or colony
- compromiseAgreement through mutual sacrifice
- accordHarmony between parties
- dealAgreement or distribution
terms · arrangement · understanding · concession · middle ground · give-and-take · handshake · contract · pact · resolution
dickersaccepts
Consents to receive
acquiesces · complies · submits · concedes · capitulates
- Charles Dickens
- the dickensEmphatic exclamation substitute