Barter

['bɑːtə] or ['bɑrtɚ]

Definition

(noun.) an equal exchange; 'we had no money so we had to live by barter'.

(verb.) exchange goods without involving money.

Typist: Shane--From WordNet

Definition

(v. i.) To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.

(v. t.) To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.

(n.) The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.

(n.) The thing given in exchange.

Typist: Maura

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Make exchanges, traffic by exchanges.

v. a. Give in exchange, barter away.

n. Exchange, traffic by exchange.

Typed by Edmund

Definition

v.t. to give one thing in exchange for another (with for away).—v.i. to traffic by exchanging.—n. traffic by exchange of commodities.—n. Bar′terer one who barters.

Checked by Kenneth