BARTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barter mean? 

• BARTER (noun)
  The noun BARTER has 1 sense:

1. an equal exchange

  Familiarity information: BARTER used as a noun is very rare.

• BARTER (verb)
  The verb BARTER has 1 sense:

1. exchange goods without involving money

  Familiarity information: BARTER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An equal exchange

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

barter; swap; swop; trade

Context example:

we had no money so we had to live by barter

Hypernyms ("barter" is a kind of...):

exchange; interchange (reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "barter"):

horse trade; horse trading (the swapping of horses (accompanied by much bargaining))

Derivation:

barter (exchange goods without involving money)

• BARTER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they barter    ... he / she / it barters   
Past simple: bartered   
Past participle: bartered   
-ing form: bartering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exchange goods without involving money

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "barter" is one way to...):

change; exchange; interchange (give to, and receive from, one another)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

Sam and Sue barter
Sam wants to barter with Sue

Derivation:

barter (an equal exchange)

barterer (a trader who exchanges goods and not money)

 Context examples 

But if it be your wish to loll and loiter in these glades, bartering glory and renown for vile gold and ill-gotten riches, then ye must find another leader; for I have lived in honor, and in honor I trust that I shall die.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You never can know what it was to be devoted to you, with those old associations; to find that anyone could be so hard as to suppose that the truth of my heart was bartered away, and to be surrounded by appearances confirming that belief.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)