Synonyms:
barter, swap, swop, trade
Meaning: an equal exchange; "we had no money so we had to live by barter"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
barter
Meaning: exchange goods without involving money
Usage examples
A little after sunrise they come in, and we have a busy day of barter.
It sounds like a bit of occasional barter, rather than an out-and-out alliance.
It sounds like a bit of occasional barter, rather than an out-and-out alliance.
At that time, truck and barter were the common modes of exchange, and rents were paid in products and services, not in money.
With the Indians, who were camped everywhere in the woods along the Assiniboine, the Overlanders began to barter for carts, oxen, ponies, and dried deer-meat or pemmican.
"A few fanatics hate us, and a few merchants who lost money when we replaced this primitive barter economy of theirs, but nine-tenths of them have benefited enormously from us, and continue to benefit...."
Laudonniere refused, but assured them that, as soon as the defences of the fort should be completed, a search should be begun in earnest for the Appalachian gold mine, and that meanwhile two small vessels then building on the river should be sent along the coast to barter for provisions with the Indians.