BARTER


Meaning of BARTER in English

I. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

In the local market, meat and vegetables are bartered for electrical goods.

She had some success in bartering with her guards.

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Eventually money becomes worthless, and people are forced to barter or substitute with other sorts of currencies, like cigarettes.

In diverse cultures men pursue and acquire, while women are protected and bartered.

Meagre amounts of food were bartered by the less unfortunate to the starving in return for land and equipment.

The strategy of bartering, mentioned earlier is one way to rein in the cost of a date.

They had to grow, make, or barter for most of what they needed.

They were bartered for Western currency, sold by families desperate for money to buy food.

You are carrying on a business if you sell or barter any of the livestock or their produce.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Beads were used as barter in the early days of settlement.

Many Soviet citizens were able to get what they needed by barter .

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Experts say most of these freebies are really a form of barter .

If people want to exchange any goods, they will do so by barter .

In the barter system of the plains, five tipi poles might equal one horse.

Money itself might disappear in some places, to be replaced by barter .

The old system of barter I suppose.

We are not paying any taxes and keep afloat only with the help of barter deals.

We can therefore conclude that in these societies a different system of exchange or barter was used for basic daily transactions.

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