Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To trade goods or services without the exchange of money.
- intransitive verb To trade (goods or services) without the exchange of money.
- noun The act or practice of bartering.
- noun Something bartered.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being something based on bartering.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To traffic or trade by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from buying and selling for money.
- To give (one thing or commodity) for another of equivalent or supposed equivalent value: with a person, for (formerly
with ) a thing: as, tobarter one's jewels for bread. - To exchange, in general.
- noun The act of exchanging; specifically, the act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities.
- noun The thing given in exchange.
- noun An arithmetical rule by which the values of different goods are ascertained and compared
- noun Synonyms Dealing, trade, traffic, truck, interchange.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by
away . - intransitive verb To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a
sale andpurchase , in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck. - noun The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.
- noun The thing given in exchange.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an
equal exchange - verb exchange
goods orservices without involvingmoney
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an equal exchange
- verb exchange goods without involving money
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Balzack chews beef bones i barter from the butcher at the grocery store. i keep him supplied with fish and game and he keep me supplied with bones for him to chew.
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Balzack chews beef bones i barter from the butcher at the grocery store. i keep him supplied with fish and game and he keep me supplied with bones for him to chew.
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These cucumbers are exchanged in barter with fish.
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These cucumbers are exchanged in barter with fish.
Multigrain Kakdi Vada Anjali 2008
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Whatever they can†™ t grow hydroponically, they barter from the city above, Topside.
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Cash, as it turns out, isn't necessarily the preferred medium of exchange: on Chicago's South Side, barter is just as common.
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Ukraine was dealing in barter and mutual accounting in kind.
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Mr. Bandelier has shown that the word barter properly designates the transactions where such articles passed.
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen
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Anything gay always goes on the head; it is amusing to think that the considerable quantity of cloth we have given in barter has all gone to clothe that member, already so amply covered by the mass of frizzy hair.
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887
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Israelites might have brought from Egypt more clothes than they wore at their outset; they might also have obtained supplies of various articles of food and raiment in barter with the neighboring tribes for the fleeces and skins of their sheep and goats; and in furnishing them with such opportunities the care of Providence appeared.
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