(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
If you ~ goods, you exchange them for other goods, rather than selling them for money.
They have been ~ing wheat for cotton and timber...
The market-place and street were crowded with those who’d come to ~...
Traders came to ~ horses.
= trade
VERB: V n for n, V, V n
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Barter is also a noun.
Overall, ~ is a very inefficient means of organizing transactions.
...a ~ economy.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N n