(n.) The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves.
(n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker.
(v. i. & t.) To negotiate a dicker; to barter.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think I’m just one of those kinds of people.” Selina Dicker, a 38-year-old from London who works in property finance, is a little bit different in that she’s the group’s only woman.
(2) Richard Dicker, head of international justice at Human Rights Watch in New York, said Libya's actions over the two suspects would be the litmus test of its commitment to democracy and the rule of law.
(3) It is a legal avenue open to states with those laws on their books and the political will,” Dicker said.
(4) They have the first bite of the apple,” said Richard Dicker, the director of Human Rights Watch’s international justice programme.
(5) The first was a teenage boy caught foraging for stale bread in an empty compound whose constantly shifting story suggested to the British that he might have been an insurgent sympathiser or even a "dicker" – a watchman providing a steady stream of intelligence on the movements of foreign forces.
(6) It’s because they don’t have the same language skills or cultural understanding or as much experience.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest From left, David Hamilton, Jagged Globe’s Everest leader, with clients Dan Fredinburg, Michele Battelli and Selina Dicker.
(7) "Moscow and Beijing can veto a resolution but they can't suppress the desire for justice by the Syrian people and the dozens of governments that stood for their rights," said Richard Dicker, international justice director at Human Rights Watch.
Ducker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver.
(n.) A cringing, servile person; a fawner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following is a case history dealing with usage of the Swanson-Ducker designed Silastic nerve caps for the treatment of amputation-type neuromas.
(2) If one excludes the now ancient vagal theories (CAMERON 1949; CAMPBELL, 1949) which were never confirmed, all of the most recent experimental works (SARNOFF, 1952; DUCKER, 1968; LUISADA, 1967; MORITZ, 1974) confirm the adrenergic disorder of central origin during neurogenic A.P.E.
(3) Another said : "He is a cockney wide-boy agent, not unlike Jonathan in many ways: a wheeler, a dealer, a ducker, a diver.
(4) Combining the roles of chief executive and council leader also risks creating additional turmoil if the authority changes hands, argues Ann Ducker, leader of South Oxfordshire district council.
(5) At low iron(III)-concentrations (less than 10(-5) M) the fungus Aspergillus viridi-nutans Ducker & Thrower excretes desferri-ferricrocin as the main sideramine into the culture medium.
(6) Ken Ducker Yorkley, Gloucestershire • Are these letters about dispiriting phrases designed to “raise awareness”?
(7) In spite of the cockney 'ducker and diver' front, I think of him like an old-fashioned Hollywood impresario."
(8) Both prosecution and, to some extent, defence have tapped into the perception of the best English manager of the modern era over the past two weeks, the crown seeking to expose Redknapp as a ducker and diver with all the nous required to set up an anonymous offshore bank account .