BARTER


Meaning of BARTER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ bɑ:(r)tə(r) ]

( barters, bartering, bartered)

If you barter goods, you exchange them for other goods, rather than selling them for money.

They have been bartering wheat for cotton and timber...

The market-place and street were crowded with those who’d come to barter...

Traders came to barter horses.

= trade

VERB : V n for n , V , V n

Barter is also a noun.

Overall, barter is a very inefficient means of organizing transactions.

...a barter economy.

N-UNCOUNT : oft N n

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