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barter

ˈbɑrtər
WordNet
  1. (v) barter
    exchange goods without involving money
  2. (n) barter
    an equal exchange "we had no money so we had to live by barter"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Barter
    The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods. "The spirit of huckstering and barter ."
  2. Barter
    The thing given in exchange.
  3. Barter
    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.
  4. Barter
    bär"tẽr 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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. barter
    To traffic or trade by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from buying and selling for money.
  2. barter
    To give (one thing or commodity) for another of equivalent or supposed equivalent value: with a person, for (formerly with) a thing: as, to barter one's jewels for bread.
  3. barter
    To exchange, in general.
  4. (n) barter
    The act of exchanging; specifically, the act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities.
  5. (n) barter
    The thing given in exchange.
  6. (n) barter
    An arithmetical rule by which the values of different goods are ascertained and compared
  7. (n) barter
    Synonyms Dealing, trade, traffic, truck, interchange.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.t) Barter
    bär′tėr to give one thing in exchange for another (with for, away)
  2. (v.i) Barter
    to traffic by exchanging
  3. (n) Barter
    traffic by exchange of commodities
Quotations
Adam Smith
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Adam Smith
Edmund Burke
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. bartren, OF. barater, bareter, to cheat, exchange, perh. fr. Gr. pra`ttein to do, deal (well or ill), use practices or tricks, or perh. fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. brath, treachery, W. brad,. Cf. Barrator

Usage in the news

Out of business, she bartered to reduce her inventory. meetingsnet.com

But seriously, folks, bartering once worked out well for Mary Lou and me several winters back, and this is where the international meetings thing comes in. meetingsnet.com

My first contact with the bartering bug occurred after a dental checkup about a year ago, when I was advised to have extensive restoration work done on my teeth to the tune of $300. motherearthnews.com

I've known for some time now that I could swap for expensive items (which I wouldn't be able to afford any other way), but MOTHER EARTH NEWS recently motivated me to make bartering a regular habit. motherearthnews.com

And it's not just the practical aspect of bartering that appeals to me, either. motherearthnews.com

Have you bartered for items you need in your business. entrepreneur.com

Pakistan's supreme court is investigating reports of young girls bartered to settle a blood feud. globalpost.com

You can barter by bringing in your own old kids' threads to trade in. tucsonweekly.com

Concepts like sharing and bartering are being revived and updated for the Twitter age. nytimes.com

The settlers bartered skins for goods. leaderunion.com

Captain Barter with his dog and scale model sailing ship. sierrasun.com

Barter the delivery, at a future date, of a jar of homemade salsa. montereycountyweekly.com

At a recent Portland event, people bartered and traded everything from raw milk yogurt to Indian curry peanut brittle. oregonlive.com

James Levine Conducts The Bartered Bride. pbs.org

Watch Layla Claire and Paul Appleby perform in the Lindemann Young Artists production of The Bartered Bride, conducted by James Levine, and talk about the experience working with Maestro. pbs.org

Usage in scientific papers

The point is that if the tangent to the curve alpha is in a direction that constitutes barter, ie no change in value at that pa and qa , the contribution to P vanishes.
Time and symmetry in models of economic markets

Both goods and currencies get their values from dynamics and to understand what their ratio means, one must go back to the beginning and model a network of agents bartering with each other, and see how, dynamically, currencies arise, emerging from the complex dynamics of the agents.
Time and symmetry in models of economic markets

Different p2p protocols are implementations of different distributed exchange mechanisms, for which bilateral barter is the simplest.
Exploring Network Economics

Usage in literature

Wilfrid put his treasures between his knees before him, I sat opposite, and the barter began. "The New North" by Agnes Deans Cameron

Would I sell our little Ally, Barter Tom, dispose of Sally? "Voices for the Speechless"

Barter with natives beyond the Darling. "Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 1 (of 2)" by Thomas Mitchell

Instruments, books, and charts supplied, with articles for presents and barter. "A Voyage to Terra Australis" by Matthew Flinders

The principal articles of barter were skins of fur animals, porcupine quills, dogs, slaves, and women. "Pioneers in Canada" by Sir Harry Johnston

If rank were a matter of barter, it would cease to be a reward to the virtuous. "Tales of Old Japan" by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford

View of Murray's Islands, with the natives offering to barter. "A Voyage to Terra Australis Volume 2" by Matthew Flinders

They bartered their provisions with the Dutch for beads and other toys, but seemed more desirous of having linen. "A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume X" by Robert Kerr

Yes, sacrifice; for was it not a sacrifice to barter away youth, pride, nay, life itself! "Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, March 28, 1891" by Various

On that occasion her excellent business judgment and her powers of barter had attracted him strongly. "Scattergood Baines" by Clarence Budington Kelland

Usage in poetry
Bartering all for Faith,
Following e'er
That others deem a wraith,
Fleeting and fair.
Mourn ye your brothers slain,
That now afar
From hush and dews and star
Man barters for his gain?
When the hour swings around
Come and barter and buy;
Come away, come away,
From green earth and blue sky.
To his house the bodiless
Come to barter endlessly
Vision, wisdom, for bodies
Palpable as his, and weighty.
When health is ours we give to these
A false delusive worth;
And sacrificing real joys,
We barter heav'n for earth.
Love spent his life for her
And hid his tears and sighs;
He bartered all his soul for her,
With tender pleading eyes.