verb / noun
barter
BAR-ter/bˈɑrtɝ/
Exchange of goods or services without using money.
The women barter a basket of apples for a knitted scarf.
Etymology
Barter apparently continues an Old French verb for trading, haggling, and cheating, whose deeper origin is uncertain. Its modern sense keeps the exchange side of that meaning: goods or services take the place of money.
In context
they would barter or trade with their neighbors for things that they couldn't make themselves because Americans society by and large was cash poor.
More examples
- She bartered carpentry work for bicycle repairs.
- The village market still permits barter.
- They are bartering tools rather than buying new ones.
Forms
barter · barters · bartered · bartering