If you make a deal with your brother to change the oil in his car in exchange for one of his video games, what you’ve just done is barter or trade goods and services.
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.
Noun
an equal exchange; "we had no money so we had to live by barter"
Verb
exchange goods without involving money
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.
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The spirit of huckstering and barter.2.
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.
To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away;
The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.
Usage Examples
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.
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Other Usage ExamplesAll government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
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