From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
barter
n : an equal exchange; "we had no money so we had to live by
barter" [syn: swap, swop, trade]
v : exchange goods without involving money
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Barter \Bar"ter\ (b[aum]r"t[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Bartered (b[aum]r"t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Bartering.]
[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.]
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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Barter \Bar"ter\, 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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Barter \Bar"ter\, n.
1. The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of
commodities; an exchange of goods.
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The spirit of huckstering and barter. --Burke.
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2. The thing given in exchange.
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Syn: Exchange; dealing; traffic; trade; truck.
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