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barter

UK/ˈbɑː.(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/US/ˈbɑɹ.tɚ/
verbB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,638 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: bartered, bartering, barters

To barter is to trade goods for other goods rather than money. Barter for food, barter their crops, a barter economy.

Textbooks say money was invented to solve the difficulty of barter, and anthropologists have looked hard for a society running on it and not found one — credit came first, and barter turns up mainly when money fails. It revives fast in a currency collapse.

F.S. Church, published in Harper's Weekly, January 17, 1874, p. 61. · Public domain

Definitions of barter

  1. 1verbbarterTo trade goods for other goods rather than money.B2+

    “Villagers bartered eggs and vegetables for salt and cloth at the market.”

barter is a trading.

Where it comes from

Old French barater means to exchange or cheat; the further origin is uncertain.

  1. Old French

    barater

  2. English, today

    barter

Late Middle English -, from Old French barater.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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barter in the wild

  • In most developed countries, barter usually exists parallel to monetary systems only to a very limited extent.

    Barter

  • Silent bartering has been used since ancient times, such as the ancient Ghana Empire.

    Silent trade

  • Money is a means of fulfilling these functions indirectly and in general rather than directly, as with barter.

    History of money

  • A property caretaker is a person, group, or organization that cares for real estate for trade or financial compensation, and sometimes as a barter for rent-free living accommodations.

    Property caretaker

  • Trade and barter, the English equivalent, has the same combinations, but a different way of acquiring them.

    Commerce (card game)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.